Litigating Private Antitrust Actions

• Author: J. Stephen Simms
• DOI: 10.1177/0003603X8603100310
• Published date: 01 September 1986
• Date: 01 September 1986
• Subject Matter: Article

The

Antitrust

Bulletin/Fall 1986

Litigating Private Antitrust

Actions

Philip C. Jones

Boulder, Colo.: Shepard's/McGraw-Hill (1984), 626 pp.

845

Reviewed by J. Stephen Simms, Member

of

Maryland, District

of

Columbia, and Illinois Bars; formerly,

Trial

Attorney, Honors

Program

of

the U.S. Department

of

Justice, Antitrust Division.

There is no shortage of excellent antitrust texts, hornbooks, and

treatises. Indeed, apractitioner with the goal

of

assembling an

ample, general library for antitrust research would do well with

only Sullivan's Antitrust, Von Kalinowski's Antitrust and

Trade

Regulation, Areeda and Turner's Antitrust, and the ABA Anti-

trust Section's Antitrust Developments 2d.

Yet

the shortcoming

of

all

of

these works is that while they well serve the practitioner

to analyze the legal principles applicable to an antitrust question,

they leave the practitioner on his or her own once there is a

conclusion, in answer to the antitrust question, that there is an

antitrust law violation and that there should be a lawsuit to prove

it and to collect damages.

Litigating Private Antitrust Actions takes practitioners the

step beyond initial analysis, namely, helping them to assemble a

case which will prove an antitrust violation and recover damages.

In this way, the book is the litigation counterpart to the well-

known Antitrust Advisor, now in its third edition. The Antitrust

Advisor leads attorneys through the practicalities of counseling

their clients to avoid antitrust problems, while Litigating Private

Antitrust Actions leads them through the practicalities

of

assem-

bling an antitrust case and becoming organized and prepared for

trial. Litigating Private Antitrust Actions is, overall, a well-

written and well-researched book which shows a great amount

of

thought in its conception.

Of

special note, however, it that it is

the only book which emphasizes how to assemble and to organize

aplaintiff's antitrust case.

It

is especially crucial to properly

assemble and to organize an antitrust case from its beginning,

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