HarrisMartin's Antitrust Pay-for-Delay Litigation Conference Speaker Profiles

A leader of Motley Rice’s antitrust practice, Michael Buchman has more than 20 years of experience litigating antitrust, consumer protection and privacy class actions in federal/state trial and appellate courts. Michael has a diverse antitrust background, having represented as lead or co-lead counsel a variety of plaintiff clients, from Fortune 500 companies to individual consumers, in complex cases covering matters such as restraint of trade, price-fixing, generic drug antitrust issues and anticompetitive “reverse payment” agreements between brand name pharmaceutical companies and generic companies.

Michael served as an assistant attorney general in the New York State Attorney General’s Office, Antitrust Bureau, after receiving his LL.M. degree in International Antitrust and Trade Law. Also prior to joining Motley Rice, he was a managing partner of the antitrust department at a New York-based class action law firm. He played an active role in resolving two of the largest U.S. multi-billion dollar antitrust settlements since the Sherman Act was enacted, In re NASDAQ Market-Makers Antitrust Litigation and In re Visa Check/Mastermoney Antitrust Litigation, as well as litigated numerous multi-million dollar antitrust cases. Today, he represents the largest retailer class representative in a large antitrust case—the $7.2 billion case In re Payment Card Interchange Fee and Merchant Discount Antitrust Litigation, MDL 1720. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.

Michael has more than 13 years of experience representing consumers, union health and welfare plans, and health insurers in "generic drug" litigations such as In re Augmentin Antitrust Litigation, In re Buspirone Antitrust Litigation, In re Ciprofloxacin Antitrust Litigation,In re Flonase Antitrust Litigation, In re K-Dur Antitrust Litigation, In re Relafen Antitrust Litigation, In re Tamoxifen Antitrust Litigation, In re Toprol XL Antitrust Litigation and In re Wellbutrin SR Antitrust Litigation. He also has experience litigating a large aviation antitrust matter, as well as aviation crash, emergency evacuation and other aviation cases in federal and state court.

Michael served as one of four lead attorneys in In re New Motor Vehicle Canadian Export Antitrust Litigation, MDL No. 1532 (D. Me.), an antitrust lawsuit against Chrysler, Ford, GM, Honda, Nissan and Toyota alleging the major auto manufacturers conspired to keep less expensive Canadian exports from entering the U.S.
Michael completed the intensive two-week National Institute for Trial Advocacy National Trial Training program in Boulder, Colo., in 2002. An avid writer, he has authored and co-authored articles on procedure and competition law, including a Task Force on Dealer Terminations for The Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Committee on Antitrust and Trade Regulation, entitled Dealer Termination in New York dated June 1,1998 and What's in a Name - the Diversity Death-Knell for Underwriters of Lloyd's of London and their Names; Humm v. Lombard World Trade, Inc., Vol. 4, Issue 10 International Insurance Law Review 314 (1996).

Michael is active in his community, serving as a member of the Flood and Erosion Committee for the Town of Westport, Conn., and as pro bono counsel in actions involving the misappropriation of perpetual care monies. He has also coached youth ice hockey teams at Chelsea
Piers in New York City.

MARVIN A. MILLER has more than 37 years of commercial and class action litigation experience. Mr. Miller has been lead or co-lead counsel across the full spectrum of industries (airline, cell and telephone, financial services, Internet and technology, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, retailing, stock broker and exchange, and utilities) and practices (antitrust, consumer and investor fraud and protection, employment and employee benefits, insurance, shareholder derivative actions) that encompasses Miller Law LLC’s practice. Mr. Miller holds an AV® (highest) rating from Martindale-Hubbell®. From January 2007 through 2013, Law & Politics and the publishers of Chicago magazine named Mr. Miller an Illinois Super Lawyer. Super Lawyers are the top five percent of attorneys in Illinois, as chosen by their peers and through the independent research of Law & Politics.

Prior to founding Miller Law LLC in 2007, Mr. Miller was a co-founder of another national class action law firm. Throughout his career in class action jurisprudence, Mr. Miller has represented shareholders and investors in high profile and precedent-setting class action litigation involving such companies as Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust and Baldwin United Corporation. He was lead attorney in Smith v. Groover, in which he represented clients against the Chicago Board of Trade and several of its traders; the decision in the case, later affirmed, sub. nom., in Curran v. Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith, by the U.S. Supreme Court, established the precedent that an individual has an implied private right of action to sue an Exchange for negligence in failing to supervise its members.

Mr. Miller is a 1970 graduate of Illinois Institute of Technology-Chicago-Kent College of Law, where he was a member of the Editorial Board of the Chicago-Kent Law Review. He received his undergraduate degree from Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York in 1967. He is admitted to the state bars of Illinois and New York, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third, Fourth, Seventh, and Eleventh Circuits, the United States District Courts for the Northern District of Illinois (including the Trial Bar), Southern District of New York, Eastern District of Michigan and Northern District of California. Mr. Miller is a member of the Chicago Bar Association and the Illinois State Bar Association and serves on the Cy Pres Committee of the Illinois Bar Foundation.

Attorney Mitchell Breit is a shareholder at Simmons Hanly Conroy LLC. With a legal career that spans thirty five years, Mr. Breit’s practice is focused on consumer class actions and mass torts of national scope. Of note, he was actively involved in the multidistrict litigation concerning the BP Gulf Oil Spill, as well as the multidistrict litigation concerning Toyota Unintended Acceleration.

In addition, Mr. Breit was instrumental in settling a seminal case against Bank of America involving debit card overdraft fees and in settlements of environmental class actions against Honeywell, Inc. involving contamination of properties in the vicinity of a manufacturing facility in Tampa, Florida and recently against Conoco involving contamination of properties in Pensacola, Florida.

Mr. Breit also litigates pharmaceutical cases involving defective medical products and dangerous drugs. He served on the Plaintiffs’ Executive Committee in the ReNu MoistureLoc® litigation (In re:Bausch & Lomb, Inc. Contact Lens Solution Products Liability Litigation-MDL 1785) and as Liaison Counsel in New York State consolidated Bextra-Celebrex litigation.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Breit was class co-counsel in groundwater contamination litigation in the Southern District of New York involving the gasoline additive MTBE and was co-counsel in union health and welfare fund tobacco litigation, which included multiple class actions in numerous jurisdictions.

As a leader in litigation, Mr. Breit has been a frequent panelist at national litigation conferences involving toxic and mass torts, class actions and groundwater contamination, including Mealey’s, PALS and multiple bar association conferences.

Mr. Breit received his B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1972 and his J.D. from Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles in 1979. He is admitted to practice in New York, New Jersey, and Virginia, multiple federal courts, and the U. S. Supreme Court.