Joseph N. Eckhardt

Experience

Joseph Eckhardt is an associate practicing in the Technology and Intellectual Property group. Joseph has a wide range of experience in federal antitrust regulatory matters and in civil antitrust litigation.

Attorney, McDermott Will & Emery, Washington, D.C., 2002-2008; summer associate, McDermott Will & Emery, Washington, D.C., Summer 2001.

Representative Work

• Assisting clients in civil litigation, in federal courts and in arbitration, defending against Sherman Act claims of monopolization and attempted monopolization.
• Representing clients in civil litigation, pursuing antitrust claims and related business torts, including theft of trade secrets and malicious prosecution.
• Defending clients in antitrust class actions, addressing procedural matters such as discovery of defendants and class plaintiffs and class certification.
• Defending clients subject to federal civil enforcement actions pursued by the Federal Trade Commission.
• Defending clients subject to criminal investigations pursued by the U.S. Department of Justice.
• Defending mergers and acquisitions subject to second request review by the FTC and the U.S. Department of Justice.
• Counseling clients with respect to Hart-Scott-Rodino Act premerger notification regulations, foreign premerger regulations, as well as preparing premerger notifications for submission to the FTC and U.S. Department of Justice.
• Counseling clients with respect to federal antitrust regulations relating to monopolization, resale price maintenance and price discrimination regulations under the Robinson-Patman Act.

Professional Honors & Activities

• Member, Executive Committee, Antirust Section, Oregon State Bar
• Member, Antitrust Section, American Bar Association

Civic Activities

• Volunteer, U.S. Peace Corps, Bolivia , South America, 1994-1996

Publications

• "US Antitrust Law: Unreasonable Restraints of Trade Under Section I of the Sherman Act," coauthor, 2 Competition Law Journal 259, 2003
• Casenote, "Balancing Interests in Free Trade and Health: How the WHO's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Can Withstand WTO Scrutiny," 12 Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law 197, 2002

Education

• Duke University School of Law, J.D., LL.M, 2002
  Associate Editor, Duke Journal of International and Comparative Law
• Emory University School of Public Health, M.P.H., 1999
• New York University, B.A., history, 1993

Admissions

• Oregon
• District of Columbia
• New York

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