Join us to learn more about:
- What our federal and state price discrimination laws outlaw and why they were passed
- How corporate interests accomplished a complete side-lining of our price discrimination laws in the 1970s
- How the under-enforcement of our price discrimination laws led directly to the over-consolidation and excessive rent-seeking we observe all around us
- Why it’s not too late to turn the tide—and how small businesses can use federal and state price discrimination laws to do so
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Catherine Simonsen Bio
Catherine is a Partner and Co-Founder of Simonsen Sussman LLP. She brings over a decade of experience investigating and litigating government and private antitrust cases on both the plaintiff and defense sides in federal and California state courts.
Prior to co-founding the firm, Catherine served as the Assistant Regional Director for the Western Competition Group at the Federal Trade Commission, where she managed merger and conduct investigations and complaint preparation for violations of Clayton Act Section 7, the Robinson-Patman Act, Sherman Act Sections 1 and 2, and the Federal Trade Commission Act. Before joining the FTC, Catherine served as a Deputy Attorney General in the Antitrust Section of the California Attorney General’s office, where she investigated and litigated the State’s California Cartwright Act and Unfair Competition Law claims against a dominant e-commerce provider.
Catherine also currently serves as Senior Legal Fellow with the American Economic Liberties Project, where she advises on antitrust reform legislation and has prepared several practice guides for high-impact enforcement of the antitrust laws and co-authored an amicus brief on monopolization remedies.
