Changing Business Practices: Effectively Steering Clear of Antitrust Violations

Dan Laytin is a litigation partner in Kirkland’s Chicago office. His practice is principally concentrated in the areas of antitrust and other complex litigation.
Dan has been recognized as a leading antitrust practitioner by Chambers every year from 2006 to 2023; by The Legal 500 U.S. for antitrust in 2007, 2010, 2012–2014, 2016–2023, and for Appellate: Supreme Court in 2017; and by The Best Lawyers in America, U.S. News and World Report, Best Lawyers? from 2013–2023. In 2018, Dan was named one of The National Law Journal’s “Mergers & Acquisitions and Antitrust Trailblazers.” He was also named as one of only five Rising Stars in the area of Antitrust by Law360 in 2013 for his significant accomplishments as an attorney under the age of 40. From 2019–2022, Benchmark Litigation named Dan a Local Litigation Star for Antitrus

Steve is the Assistant General Counsel for Robert Bosch LLC, and focuses on antitrust, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate governance in-house.

Erin is the Senior Counsel for Antitrust and Competition at The Boeing Company.
At the start of her career, Shencopp clerked for the Indiana Supreme Court, getting exposure to constitutional law, tort issues, and even death penalty cases straight out of the gate. From there, she pursued an interest in criminal law at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in New York. Later on she joined Jones Day, where she focused on commercial litigation, but her work on a “pay for delay” Federal Trade Commission investigation and a monopolization case cemented her passion for antitrust law.
In 2020, Shencopp left private practice to join the Antitrust Bureau of the Illinois Attorney General’s Office. The lawyer got to work on the extensive Google search monopolization case for Illinois, and then as a special assistant attorney general for the State of Colorado.
She's been with The Boeing Company since 2022.

After 33 years as a senior partner at Winston and Strawn LLP, Mark became General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of the Metals Service Center Institute (www.msci.org) on February 1, 2014. In addition, after serving as a senior lecturer at Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management for over 20 years while practicing at Winston, Mark received an appointment to serve as a Clinical Professor.
Mark was recently nominated as the Clinical Faculty representative to the Northwestern University Faculty Senate, ( a three year term expiring in 2024). Mark was Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Lawrence Hall Youth Services (www.lawrencehall.org), after serving on the Board for many years, and now is an Advisory Trustee of Lawrence Hall. Mark also served on the Advisory Board of Catholic Charities of Chicago. Mark is currently involved in legal committees of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and and the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM).
Having served as Chairman of the Illinois State Bar Association Antitrust Section in 2014-2015, Mark was recently re-appointed to the ABA Antitrust Section leadership as the ABA Intellectual Property Law Section Liaison (through August 2024). He has served in leadership of many Sections of the American Bar Association including the Antitrust and Business Law Sections . He was also appointed in 2022 to serve as an Observor to the Uniform Law Commission Study Committee on State Antitrust Law. He has served as Chair of the Antitrust Committee of the Illinois Bar Association and the Chicago Bar Association Antitrust Committee in 2016-17, receiving a Service Award from the Chicago Bar Association in June, 2017 for his work on that committee.
Mark has also served on various boards at Washington University including the National Law Alumni Council, the Chicago Regional Cabinet of the University, and the Chicago Campaign Committee. He is also a member of the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC).