Legal Advice

Adcox Strategies offers confidential advisory services to companies and their counsel on a range of civil and criminal antitrust matters, including:

  • Information sharing practices and algorithmic pricing

  • Subpoena and investigation management

  • Litigation strategy

  • Pricing and distribution policies

  • Corporate compliance and training

Clients range in size from Fortune 100 companies to start-ups and operate in a variety of industries, including:

  • Agriculture/Food & Beverage

  • Consumer packaged goods

  • Software

  • Packaging

  • Automotive

  • Pharmaceuticals/Medical Devices

  • Heavy Industrials

  • Insurance

  • Fintech/Data Services

Representative Experience

  • Counsel for multiple defendants in multiple treble-damages class actions alleging conspiracies to manipulate the price of PVC pipe.

  • Lead counsel defending Tyson Foods in multiple treble-damages class actions alleging industry-wide conspiracies to manipulate the price of broiler chickens, reduce pork and turkey output, and suppress broiler grower pay.

  • Lead counsel defending RelayHealth, a subsidiary of McKesson, in a treble-damages class action alleging a conspiracy to monopolize electronic prescribing.

  • Lead counsel defending Alvogen in the Generics Price-Fixing MDL.

  • Lead counsel defending the Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies in a treble-damages class action alleging a conspiracy to prevent PharmacyChecker.com from accessing internet platforms.

  • Lead counsel for multiple defendants in the Auto Parts MDL in Detroit, Michigan.

  • Counsel defending Independence Blue Cross (IBC) in the treble-damages MDL against the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association and individual Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans alleging the illegality of plan service areas.

  • Counsel defending a Japanese auto-parts company in connection with cartel investigations by the DOJ, the European Commission, and the Canadian Competition Bureau.

Recognition

  • Chambers USA – District of Columbia: Antitrust: Litigation Specialists (2019 – 2024)

  • The Legal 500 United States – Leading Lawyer for Antitrust - Civil Litigation/Class Actions: Defense (2022 – 2024)

  • Benchmark Litigation – DC Litigation Star: Competition/Antitrust (2024)

  • Lawdragon – 500 Leading Litigators in America (2023 – 2025)

  • Global Competition Review – Lawyer of the Year nominations (2022 – 2023) 

  • Global Competition Review – Women in Antitrust (2021)

  • Global Competition Review – Litigator of the Year nominations (2019 and 2021) 

  • The National Law Journal – Litigation Trailblazer (2020)

  • Corporate Counsel – Women, Influence & Power in Law Honoree: Law Firm Women’s Legal Awards Category (2019)

  • Global Competition Review – Litigation of the Year – Cartel Defence nomination (2018)

  • Who’s Who Legal – Thought Leaders – Competition (2024)

  • Who's Who Legal – Competition (2021-2024)

  • Super Lawyers (2019 – 2025)

  • Who’s Who Legal – Competition Future Leaders (2018 – 2020)

  • Profiles in Diversity Journal – Women Worth Watching 2017 

Thought Leadership

  • Setting the AI Standard for Algorithmic Pricing in the U.S.: Per Se or Rule of Reason?, NZKart, July 15, 2024

  • Best Practices in the Acquisition of a Government Contractor, Best Practices in the Acquisition of a Government Contractor, October 7, 2021

  • Getting Your Best Outcome Post-AU Optronics: Pay No Attention to That Case Behind The Curtain, Antitrust, July 24, 2012

  • Panel Speaker, Antitrust Compliance Programs, American Bar Association Antitrust Masters Course, September 26, 2024

  • Panel Speaker, Price-Fixing Litigation and How to Win at Trial, International Association of Defense Counsel 2024 Annual Meeting, July 26, 2024

  • Panel Speaker, Antitrust & The CPG Industry: Is Winter Coming?, Consumer Brands CPG Legal Forum, February 27, 2024

  • Guest Lecturer, Information Exchanges Among Competitors, Kellogg Northwestern, November 16, 2023

  • Guest Lecturer, Antitrust Class Action Litigation, Kellogg Northwestern, November 17, 2022

  • Panel Speaker, Antitrust Compliance Programs, American Bar Association Antitrust Masters Course, October 21, 2022

  • Conference Chair and Panel Speaker, Increased Criminal Enforcement: How Will Counseling Evolve, CompLaw Antitrust Midwest Conference, July 14, 2022

  • Panel Speaker, Pricing and Distribution Across Key Industries, CompLaw Antitrust Texas Conference, September 28, 2021

  • Panel Speaker, Challenges in Litigating Civil Cases with Parallel Criminal Investigation, ABA Antitrust Section Program, June 24, 2021

  • Panel Speaker, Failing Firm Theory, Women in Antitrust Brazil webinar, August 27, 2020

  • Panel Speaker, Criminal Antitrust Update, American Bar Association Cartel and Criminal Practice Committee, January 31, 2020

  • Panel Speaker, When Conversation Becomes Collusion, GCR Live: 3rd Annual Women in Antitrust Program, November 12, 2019

  • Guest Lecturer, So You Thought You Settled: A U.S. Guide to Class Actions, Legal and Risk Management Institute, January 18, 2019

  • Panel Speaker, Negotiating Cartel Fines and Civil Settlement, American Bar Association 66th Annual Section of Antitrust Law Spring Meeting, April 11, 2018

  • Guest Lecturer, Observations from a U.S. Jury Trial, Legal and Risk Management Institute, February 21, 2018

  • Guest Lecturer, Big Data and U.S. Antitrust Policy, Yuasa & Hara and NERA co-sponsored program for Japan corporate counsel, February 19, 2018

  • Guest Lecturer, Regulatory Review of Joint Ventures Between Competitors in the U.S., Legal and Risk Management Institute and Thompson Reuters, October 1, 2017

  • Guest Lecturer, U.S. Criminal Antitrust Enforcement – An Update, Keiei Hoyu Kai in Tokyo, October 4, 2016

  • Panel Moderator, Private Jury Trials: Reality or Reality TV?, ABA 64th Annual Section of Antitrust Law Spring Meeting, April 6, 2016

  • Panel Speaker, Antitrust Update, American Bar Association In-House Counsel Committee, March 7, 2016

  • Panel Moderator, Multistate Indirect Purchaser Class Actions: Using Consumer Protection Statutes to Hurdle the Illinois Brick Wall, American Bar Association Competition Torts Committee, December 15, 2015

  • Panel Speaker, The FTAIA Before the Supreme Court – Recent Developments in International Antitrust, American Bar Association Exemptions & Immunities, Joint Conduct, and International Committees, May 29, 2015

Credentials and Memberships

Education

  • JD, with Honors – The George Washington University Law School (2007)

  • BS, with High Honors – Michigan State University (1996)

Admissions

  • District of Columbia

  • Maryland

  • U.S. Supreme Court

  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

  • U.S. District Court District of Columbia

  • U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois

  • U.S. District Court Maryland

  • U.S. Judicial Panel on Multi-District Litigation

Memberships

  • American Bar Association Sections of Antitrust Law, Litigation, Law Practice, and Solo, Small Firm, and General Practice Divisions

  • American Bar Foundation (Life Fellow)

  • International Association of Defense Counsel

  • District of Columbia Bar Association

  • Maryland State Bar Association