GOLDEN STATE INSTITUTE 25TH ANNIVERSARY RETROSPECTIVE AND PROSPECTIVE VIEWS ON CALIFORNIA ANTITRUST AND UNFAIR COMPETITION LAW

Edited by Craig Corbitt¹

I. INTRODUCTION

To commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Golden State Institute, there was a panel discussion of significant past and future trends in law and practice, in both state and federal antitrust laws and California’s Unfair Competition Law ("UCL")² Senior District Judge Susan Illston was the moderator, and the panelists were four experienced and prominent practitioners. Craig Corbitt and Dan Wall discussed antitrust developments from the plaintiff and defense perspectives, respectively, while Kim Kralowec and Will Stern discussed plaintiff and defense perspectives on the UCL.

• Judge Illston was appointed to the Northern District of California in 1995 by President Clinton, and took Senior Status in 2013. Before that she was in private practice for over twenty years with Cotchett & Illston in Burlingame, where she litigated numerous antitrust cases, among others. She has presided over many antitrust and other complex cases on the bench, including the massive LCD criminal and civil price-fixing litigation and other high-profile cases such as United States v. Barry Bonds.
• Craig Corbitt is Of Counsel to Zelle LLP in San Francisco. He has been a practicing antitrust lawyer for nearly forty years, a majority of the time representing plaintiffs in both individual and class cases. He has been honored numerous times by Best Lawyers, Global Competition Review, Super Lawyers, and others. Craig was the California State Bar’s Antitrust, UCC, and Privacy Section’s "2015 Antitrust Lawyer of the Year."
• Daniel Wall is a partner of Latham & Watkins LLP in San Francisco. He has been an antitrust lawyer for almost thirty-five years, representing defendants in litigation and companies in mergers and counseling. He has been honored numerous times by Chambers USA, Best Lawyers, Global Competition Review, and Super Lawyers, and was named one of the "Top 100 Lawyers in California" by the Daily Journal in 2011.
• Kimberly Kralowec is the principal of the Kralowec Law Group in San Francisco. During her nearly twenty-five years as a litigator, Kimberly has represented plaintiffs in class actions involving antitrust and the UCL, in areas including consumer finance, employment (wage and hour and misclassification), and civil rights (Unruh Act). Kimberly publishes The UCL Practitioner,³ a legal weblog covering the UCL, Consumer Legal Remedies Act, and class action law in California and the Ninth Circuit. Kimberly has been selected by the Daily Journal as one of the "Top 100 Labor & Employment Lawyers in California" as well as one of the "Top 75 Woman Lawyers (Litigation) in California" and received a 2013 "California Lawyer Attorney of the Year" Award.
• William Stern is a partner of Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco. He has been practicing for nearly thirty-five years, primarily representing defendants in consumer class actions. He is the author of The Rutter Group’s Bus. & Prof. C. §17200 Practice, and was the principal author of the 2004 voter initiative Proposition 64, which amended and narrowed the standing requirements of the UCL. William has been honored numerous times by Best Lawyers and Super Lawyers, and is a fellow of the American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers.