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Anita Stork is a vice chair of the firm's Antitrust and Consumer Law Practice Group, and a vice chair of the firm's litigation practice. She is a partner in the San Francisco office.
Ms. Stork's practice includes a variety of complex litigation and white collar investigation matters, with a focus on antitrust and unfair competition litigation. She has experience in federal and state antitrust litigation, government and internal investigations, as well as litigation in the financial services and health care industries. Ms. Stork also counsels clients on a wide variety of competition issues such as distribution, joint ventures, strategic alliances, pricing, and intellectual property licensing, as well as merger compliance under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act.
Representative Matters
- Static Random Access Memory Litigation - Represent Integrated Device Technologies in antitrust litigation.
- Currently representing the Special Litigation Committee of Fortune 50 company in its internal investigation of alleged wrongdoing by officers, directors, and outside contractors.
- Cosmetics Cases - Represent Dillard's, Inc. in class action case alleging vertical price fixing among the major department store chains and the manufacturers of high-end cosmetics.
- In re Managed Care - Represented PacifiCare Health Systems in civil RICO class action case alleging a conspiracy to defraud doctors among 10 large managed care companies. First obtained dismissal for PacifiCare of more than 1 billion dollars in damages stemming from alleged capitation practices, then obtained summary judgment on the remaining liability and damage claims.
- Audit committee investigation for public company in connection with restatement of its financials.
- Defended securities broker in NASD arbitration involving suitability claims.
- Represented electronics manufacturer in patent infringement case with antitrust and unfair competition counterclaims involving allegations of fraud on the Patent Office.
- Represented online game manufacturer in unfair competition and trademark infringement case.
Honors and Rankings
- Chambers USA, America's Leading Lawyers for Business, Antitrust (2004-2008)
- Northern California Super Lawyer, Antitrust Litigation (2005-2008)
- "Top 50 Women" lawyers in Bay Area, Law & Politics Magazine (2008)
Memberships and Affiliations
- California State Bar Leadership
- Advisor to the Executive Committee of the California State Bar Section on Antitrust and Competition Law (2007-present)
- Executive Committee of the California State Bar Section on Antitrust and Unfair Competition Law (2004-2007)
- Vice-Chair of Programs, Executive Committee of the California State Bar Section on Antitrust and Unfair Competition Law (2005-2006)
- American Bar Association, Antitrust Law Section
- American Bar Association, Litigation Section
Publications and Speeches
- Panelist, "Upstream and Downstream on Concord Board," NERA Antitrust and Trade Regulation Seminar
- Moderated Panel on the effects of Proposition 64 and federal class action reform at the Golden State Institute
- Edited chapter on antitrust law for textbook used at Stanford Graduate School of Business
- Researched and edited antitrust casebook authored by Lawrence Sullivan and Eleanor Fox
- "The Government's Asking Questions, What Do I Do Now?," State Bar Section on Antitrust and Unfair Competition Law (2006)
- "Up in Smoke, Will the Tobacco Cases Replace the "But For" Requirement of 17200?," California State Bar Section on Antitrust and Unfair Competition Law (2006)
- "Antitrust Law," Stanford Graduate School of Business (2004-2005)
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