John Stewart Playforth

Associate

jplayforth@cov.com
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Covington & Burling LLP
1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20004-2401
Tel: 202.662.5635
Fax: 202.778.5635


 

Practices

Education

  • Harvard Law School, J.D., 2009
    • magna cum laude
    • Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Executive Editor
  • Harvard University, B.A., 2006
    • magna cum laude
    • Phi Beta Kappa

Judicial Clerkship

  • Hon. John M. Rogers, U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit, 2009-2010

Bar Admissions

  • District of Columbia
  • Massachusetts


John Playforth is an associate in the firm’s Washington, DC office and a member of the Litigation Practice Group.

Representative Matters

  • Representing a leading electronics manufacturer in In re TFT-LCD Antitrust Litigation, a consolidated set of antitrust class actions and related cases involving liquid crystal displays used in televisions, computer monitors, and other products.
  • Representing the National Football League in an antitrust challenge to the League’s trademark licensing arrangements (American Needle, Inc. v. New Orleans La. Saints).

Publications and Speeches

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