Julie S Elmer

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Julie Elmer is a partner in Freshfields' antitrust, competition, and trade and litigation practices. With 30 years of civil litigation experience, including complex commercial litigation and class action litigation, Julie focuses on antitrust litigation, as well as federal and state merger and civil conduct investigations.

Before joining Freshfields in July 2020, Julie spent five years at the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice, where she was lead trial counsel in United States v. EnergySolutions and United States v. Sabre. In private practice, Julie’s antitrust litigation experience includes defending Google in litigation relating to its ad tech business and successfully defending McWane, Inc. against the FTC’s price-fixing claims in the GCR 2015 Americas Behavioral Matter of the Year. Before DOJ, Julie was a partner at one of the premier defense firms in the Southeast. There, her practice focused on defending mass actions ranging from consumer fraud and business torts to construction defect and product liability. Her work in these areas encompassed jury trials, bench trials, arbitrations, motion practice, and every other facet of complex litigation.