Law student wins Jones Day's $10,000 Swope Antitrust Writing Prize
March 2009
Washington, DC -- Law student Anthony J. Alt today won the William E. Swope Antitrust Prize. The writing competition sponsored by international law firm Jones Day awards a $10,000 first prize for an essay illustrating the fact-intensive approach to antitrust analysis pioneered by Mr. Swope, a long-time partner at the Firm.
Mr. Alt, due to graduate this year from Michigan's Ave Maria School of Law, submitted a paper on the insurance industry's federal antitrust exemption and recent proposals to overturn it.
Honorable mention prizes were also announced at the Jones Day Washington Office ceremonies. The $1,500 prizes went to Justin Lacour, a third-year student at New York's St. John's University School of Law who wrote about a recent Supreme Court decision on conflicts between antitrust law and federal regulation of the securities industry, and Eric M. Fraser, a University of Chicago Law School 3L, for a paper on "predatory pricing" by technology companies battling to establish industry standards.
The winners were invited to attend the Spring Meeting of the American Bar Association's Antitrust Section as guests of Jones Day.
"At a time when antitrust enforcement clung to rigid rules, tests, and theories, Bill Swope insisted on focusing on the facts and how they explained how specific markets worked in the real world," said Phil Proger, head of Jones Day's Antitrust & Competition Law Practice. "While this is now the accepted standard, Bill was one of the leaders in pushing for fewer slogans and more factual analysis."
The Firm's Antitrust & Competition Law Practice consists of more than 135 counselors and litigators located in major business centers in the U.S., Latin America, Europe, and Asia. The practice is frequently recognized in professional publications and rankings as one of the leading antitrust/competition practices in the world.
Jones Day is an international law firm with 32 locations in centers of business and finance throughout the world. With more than 2,400 lawyers, including more than 400 in Europe and 200 in Asia, it ranks among the world's largest law firms.