Editor's Notes

• Publication year: 2021
• Author: Trevor V Stockinger

EDITOR'S NOTES

Trevor V Stockinger

Kesselman Brantly Stockinger LLP

Manhattan Beach, CA

Welcome to the Spring issue of Volume 31 of Competition, our Section's official journal published biannually both in print and electronically. Last October, the Section pivoted the 30th Golden State Institute (GSI) to a virtual event due to the pandemic. We are particularly proud that, while not a single hand was shaken at the conference, it hit the record for the highest all-time attendance. As in the past, the conference brought together experienced jurists and practitioners who shared their insights on recent developments in competition law. This GSI also included several panels on diversity and inclusion, as part of the Section's continuing and growing focus on these issues. We are pleased to present five articles reprising discussions at GSI, as well as four articles on topics that have received recent attention from practitioners on both sides of the aisle.

The issue starts off with a comprehensive review and update on the state of antitrust and unfair competition law presented by Colleen E. Huschke, Deputy District Attorney in the Consumer Protection Unit of the San Diego County District Attorney's Office; Kate Patchen, Director and Associate General Counsel of Litigation at Facebook, Inc.; and Professor Shana Wallace at Indiana University's Maurer School of Law. In these pages, we reproduce Colleen E. Huschke's materials on California law updates, as well as Kate Patchen's and Shana Wallace's materials on Federal substantive and procedural law relating to competition issues. These notes are well worth a close reading since they contain key developments that may have been overlooked under the time demands of our busy practice.

Next, the issue includes a roundtable discussion on a "big-stakes" antitrust trial. In New York v. Deutsche Telekom AG, California and other States challenged the merger of Sprint and T-Mobile, the third and fourth largest wireless networks in the United States. Shortly before trial, the judge ordered that he would not hear opening statements. Here, we publish those previously-unheard statements along with a discussion between Paula Blizzard, Supervising Deputy General Counsel of the California Attorney General's Office in the Antitrust Section and trial counsel for California, and George Kary, Partner at Clearly Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP and trial counsel for T-Mobile U.S. and Deustche Telekom. Laura Wilkinson, Associated General Counsel...