Elizabeth C. Arens

Elizabeth Arens is an associate in the firm’s litigation and antitrust & consumer law practices.  She has represented clients in trial, appellate, and arbitration proceedings as well as Federal Trade Commission investigations.  Ms. Arens has also advised clients on a range of antitrust issues.

Representative Matters

• Represents a leading electronics company in a multi-district class action antitrust litigation.
• Represented a major utility in insurance coverage litigation relating to environmental liabilities.
• Advised a leading telecommunications company on antitrust issues in connection with a joint venture.
• Represented a financial services company in a copyright and trade secrets litigation concerning computer software.
• Represented a major pharmaceutical company in dealings with the Federal Trade Commission regarding a patent litigation settlement.

Previous Experience

• Ms. Arens has worked as a writer and editor at two Washington-based political journals, Policy Review and The Public Interest.  She served as Managing Editor of The Public Interest from 2001 to 2003.

Honors and Rankings

• Seymour A. Levy Memorial Award for the graduating student who has written the most outstanding note for the Annual Survey of American Law.

Pro Bono

• Represents inmates in parole hearings before the United States Parole Commission.
• Represents an Alabama death row inmate in federal habeas proceedings in the Northern District of Alabama.
• Represented a defendant in a complex criminal appeal in the Sixth Circuit.

Publications and Speeches

• "The Ticketmaster/Live Nation Consent Decree," Law 360 (3/9/2010), Co-Author
• "The Elevated Railroad Cases: Private Property and Mass Transit in Gilded Age New York," 61 N.Y.U. Ann. Surv. Am. L. 629 (2006), Author