applEcon principal, Janet Netz, was invited to participate in a panel discussion at the New York State Bar Association annual meeting.  

The panel entitled – “Fifty Miles from Home with a Briefcase: Expert Hot Topics” – was part of the Antitrust Law Section Annual Meeting which was held on Thursday, January 27, 2011. The panel, made up of a plaintiffs’ lawyer and a defendants’ lawyer, a representative of defendants’ experts, and Dr. Netz, discussed the state of the law in terms of antitrust class actions, including a discussion of what economic experts could contribute to the class certification stage of antitrust cases.