ANTITRUST AND CONSUMER PROTECTION SECTION EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 2025-2026

OFFICERS

Lee Brand, Chair, San Francisco
Malinda Lee, Vice Chair of Operations, Los Angeles

Dana Cook-Milligan, Vice Chair of Communications, San Francisco

MEMBERS

Eliot Adelson, Alamo
Rebecca Bers, San Francisco
Caroline Corbitt, Mill Valley
Anne Davis, Pacifica
Kyla Gibboney, Oakland
Dean Harvey, Kentfield
Josh Holian, San Francisco
Lin Kahn, San Mateo
Manish Kumar, San Francisco
Betsy Manifold, San Diego

Sean Meenan, Walnut Creek
Beatriz Mejia, San Francisco
Ryan Sandrock, San Francisco
Maricela Segura, Pacific Palisades
Gary Smith, Cardiff
Byron Tuyay, Los Angeles
Sarah Van Cullin, Oakland
Victoria Weatherford, San Francisco
Chris Wheeler, San Francisco
Laura Wilkinson, San Jose

ADVISORS

Shira Liu, Irvine
Thomas Dahdouh, San Francisco
Lee Berger, Washington
Albert Boro, San Francisco
Elizabeth Castillo, Burlington
Russ Cohen, San Francisco
Eric Enson, San Francisco
Robert Freitas, Redwood Shores
Qianwei Fu, Fremont
Abiel Garcia, Los Angeles
Michael Geibelson, Los Angeles
David Goldstein, San Francisco
Caeli Higney, San Francisco
Geoffrey Holtz, San Francisco
Peter Huston, San Francisco
Cheryl Johnson, Los Angeles
David Kesselman, Los Angeles
Bonnie Lau, San Francisco
Jessica Leal, Washington
Belinda Lee, San Francisco
Anthony Leon, San Francisco
Jonathan Levine, Emeryvillee
Lindsay Lutz, San Jose
Niall Lynch, San Francisco

Jill Manning, San Francisco
Sarretta McDonough, Los Angeles
Steve McIntyre, Los Angeles
Robert McNary, Los Angeles
Greg Nylen, Irvine
Heather Nyong’o, San Francisco
Kenneth O’Rourke, Los Angeles
Tom Papageorge, San Diego
Ian Papendick, San Francisco
E. Kate Patchen, San Francisco
Roxane A. Polidora, San Francisco
Elizabeth Pritzker, San Francisco
Paul J. Riehle, San Francisco
Anupama Satyasai, San Francisco
Michael Scarborough, San Francisco
Aaron Shenin, Albany
Trevor Stockinger, Los Angeles
Jon Tomlin, Pasadena
Christina Tusan, La Crescenta
Steven Vieux, Pleasanton
Steve Williams, San Francisco
Lawrence Wu, San Francisco
Kevin Yeh, San Francisco

NLS LIASON TERM: 2 YEARS

Brantley Pepperman, Los Angeles

CLA STAFF

Jasmeet Virdi, Sacramento

CHAIR’S COLUMN
Shira Liu, Immediate Past Chair
BRS LLP
Los Angeles, CA

The Section is proud to present the Fall 2025 edition of Competition which contains works of scholarship on topics running the gamut of antitrust and unfair competition law. This phenomenal publication would not be possible without the extraordinary work of our authors, editors, support staff, and other contributors. I wish to extend my sincere appreciation to them all.

The Section’s programming highlights the best in our practice. We held our Seventh Annual Celebrating Women in Competition in California last March, bringing together an extraordinary panel of attorneys from across the bar—plaintiff counsel, defense counsel, in-house attorneys, and government enforcers—to share their experiences and challenges in our practice. Our educational offerings have been tremendous as well. We’ve sponsored a variety of webinars and in-person panels covering antitrust economics, collusion through artificial intelligence, government enforcement priorities, and other topics. Our monthly E-Briefs, News and Notes has provided timely, substantive updates on key matters in our practice which has seen extraordinary developments through private litigation, public enforcement, and new state law initiatives over the past year. Once again, we’ve updated the Section’s beloved treatise, the comprehensive guide to California competition law.

The Section placed renewed focus on our diversity and new lawyer initiatives this year. We doubled our commitment to expanding our practice to students from underrepresented groups, awarding our Inclusion & Diversity Fellowships to two aspiring law students who received summer internships in government agencies, a $10,000 stipend each, and mentorship throughout the year. The Section renewed our mentorship program to match lawyers in their first eight years of practice with seasoned veterans of the antitrust and consumer bar. We engaged law students throughout the State with programming and networking events dedicated to opening the bar to so many individuals who are looking for a professional home. And the Section awarded our Lawyers to Watch Award to an inaugural class of five attorneys in the first eight years of their legal careers who have exhibited outstanding achievements in the practice of antitrust and unfair competition law during the previous year.

I am proud of these accomplishments, as they represent the incredible work of our Section. None of this would be possible, however, without the tireless dedication of the members of our Section’s Executive Committee, Advisors, and countless volunteers. I have been fortunate to observe their tremendous leadership day in and day out over the past year. I am humbled by their commitment and honored to have had the opportunity to serve as the Section’s Chair.

As has long been said, there is more work to do, and our best days are ahead of us. As I pass the baton to our incoming Chair, Lee Brand, I am confident that the Section remains in capable hands and will continue to provide extraordinary benefits for our members.

Shira Liu
Los Angeles, California