Antitrust

About

Provided by Langer, Grogan & Diver PC

Since its founding, Langer, Grogan & Diver has specialized in protecting small businesses and consumers against anticompetitive business practices. It has litigated price-fixing cases, monopolization cases, and patent antitrust cases in diverse industries such as sports broadcasting, pharmaceuticals, and agricultural commodities. The firm’s clients have included small businesses, consumers in class actions, and generic pharmaceutical companies.

The firm’s senior partner, Howard Langer, served as lead counsel in In re Linerboard Antitrust Litigation, 2004 WL 1221350 (E.D. Pa. 2004). On behalf of purchasers of corrugated boxes, Mr. Langer obtained what was at the time the largest antitrust recovery within the Third Circuit. He has written a basic text on antitrust law, Competition Law of the United States, (Wolters Kluwer, 4th ed. 2019) and taught the primary antitrust lecture course at the law school of the University of Pennsylvania, for over ten years.

New technologies have created new opportunities for big businesses to act in anticompetitive ways, and Langer, Grogan & Diver has made a niche at the intersection of cutting-edge developments in technology and antitrust law, most notably in its cases challenging anticompetitive broadcast practices of professional sports leagues including MLB, the NHL, and the NFL in light of new streaming and distribution technologies, with Edward Diver leading the firm's practice in these areas.