Randall A. Hack is co-leader of Locke Lord LLP’s Antitrust Litigation Practice Group and more broadly engaged in the Firm's Business Litigation and Class Action practices. At both the trial and appellate levels, he represents corporate clients in significant antitrust, commercial litigation, contract, fraud, securities, RICO, intellectual property and other disputes. He also counsels clients on competition and other regulatory compliance issues.
Litigation: Mr. Hack has directed the defense of numerous civil antitrust price-fixing, tying, monopolization and Robinson-Patman Act cases. He has extensive experience opposing purported class or mass action claims. He has wide-ranging industry background, including financial services; health, property and casualty insurance; numerous manufactured products; health care; energy; technology; and, pharmaceuticals. He has worked extensively with economic experts addressing questions of market structure, conduct and performance.
Mr. Hack has a national practice and appears regularly in courts throughout the country. He is seasoned in handling hard cases with substantial financial exposure. He has served as chair or member of a number of national defense steering committees, where he has been responsible for directing and coordinating litigation across multiple forums. Counseling: In counseling work, Mr. Hack advises clients on how to anticipate and minimize large-scale litigation and regulatory risks in transactions and day-to-day business operations. Mr. Hack’s counseling work frequently involves clients with leading market positions who require guidance on their core business practices and strategies. He analyzes the antitrust and other regulatory risks of corporate transactions and joint ventures. He has experience before the Department of Justice, Federal Trade Commission and state Attorneys General resolving enforcement agency concerns. Along with advising corporate clients, Mr. Hack has counseled industry associations which have their unique set of governance, communication and other compliance issues. Mr. Hack also advises on antitrust compliance under European Union law and regulation.
Professional Activities: Mr. Hack has contributed to a number of American Bar Association treatises (including Antitrust Law Developments) and handbooks, led trial practice programs for ABA Subcommittees, and been a panelist on class actions, economic expert testimony, compliance, mediation and other issues at ABA and other professional conferences. For example, he contributed the chapter on internal corporate antitrust compliance reviews to Antitrust Compliance - Perspectives and Resources for Corporate Counselors, published in 2005. He has also been trained in mediation by the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution, a leading alternative dispute forum supported by many large firms and corporate clients throughout the world.
Education
- J.D., cum laude, University of Michigan Law School, 1984
Senior Editor, Michigan Law Review - B.A., highest honors, University of Notre Dame, 1981
Bar Admissions
Admitted To Practice
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, 1984
- Mutliple admissions to other forums
Publications & Presentations
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Presenter,
"Health Care Antitrust – Can Competition Law Restrain Ever-Rising Costs,"
ITT Chicago – Kent College of Law
(April 2012)
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Chapter Author and Editor,
"Antitrust Discovery Handbook,"
American Bar Association
((publication forthcoming))
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Presenter,
"Health Care Antitrust – Principles and Priorities,"
Kent Law School
(April 2011)
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Co-Author,
"Client Alert: Revised Horizontal Merger Guidelines Released August 19, 2010,"
Locke Lord
(August 31, 2010)
Professional History
- Partner, Locke Lord LLP
- Associate, Partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP (1984-93)
Professional Affiliations & Achievements
- The Lawyers Club of Chicago
- President (2007 - 2008)
- Vice President (2005 - 2007)
- Secretary/Treasurer (2003 - 2005)
- Board of Directors (2001 - current)
- Illinois State Bar Association
- Appointee to President’s Special Committee on Fair and Impartial Courts (2012 - 2013)
- Appointee to Antitrust & Unfair Competition Law Section Leadership Council (2012 - 2014)
- American Bar Association
- Antitrust Section
- Litigation Section
- Trial Practice Committee
- Corporate Counseling Committee
- Chicago Bar Association
- Recognized, Illinois Super Lawyers (2008 - 2013)
- Multiple recognitions in Chambers USA, America’s Leading Lawyers for Business
Community Leadership
- Board of Directors, New Trier High School Boosters (2010- current)
- Board of Directors, Winnetka Public Schools Foundation (2001 - 2005)
- Board of Directors, Sts. Faith, Hope and Charity Parish (2001 - 2005)
- Rebuilding Together (2005 - 2012)
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