Newsletter 03.25.24
Cartel Enforcement Trends and Developments
Monitoring and updating recent key announcements, cases and other developments involving antitrust cartel enforcement (Vol. 1, No. 1)
Laura Hurtado is the head of Pillsbury’s San Francisco Litigation section. She represents entities and individuals in complex civil litigation. Practicing in both state and federal courts, Laura focuses on antitrust, unfair competition and higher education matters, and she has significant experience in class action litigation.
Laura’s practice includes defending companies in international cartel litigation, consumer class actions, securities class actions, and high-stakes contract disputes, and defending universities in matters involving retaliation, tenure and university governance. Laura’s clients span the technology, health care, education, financial services, industrial and retail sectors.
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Prior to joining Pillsbury, Laura clerked for the Honorable William Alsup on the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Before that, she was a fellow at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, where she defended the rights of homeless individuals and immigrants through direct legal services, impact litigation and policy advocacy. Between college at Yale and law school at Stanford, Laura was a paralegal in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and worked in the division’s Appellate section and San Francisco office.
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Represent a death row inmate in habeas corpus proceedings.
Represented journalists in a FOIA and Privacy Act lawsuit against FBI. Obtained release of records.
Honors & Awards
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Education
J.D., Stanford Law School, 2009
B.A., History, Yale University, 2004
with distinction
Admissions
California
Courts
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
Clerkships
The Hon. William Alsup, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, 2011 - 2012