Dylan I. Ballard

Dylan Ballard is a partner in the Antitrust and Competition Practice Group in the firm’s San Francisco office, where he leads the firm’s San Francisco Recruiting Committee. He is an Adjunct Professor at UC Hastings College of the Law, where he teaches legal writing and oral advocacy, and is on the Board of Directors of the Western Center on Law & Poverty.

Areas of Practice

Dylan is a trial lawyer who specializes in litigating antitrust and competition cases arising under the federal Sherman and Clayton Acts, as well as state antitrust, consumer protection, and unfair competition statutes. He has more than a decade of experience successfully resolving every variety of antitrust and competition matter, from government investigations, to criminal prosecutions and government enforcement actions against businesses and individuals, to class actions and other private civil actions. His practice encompasses matters civil and criminal, state and federal, before both trial and appellate courts. He also routinely counsels businesses on antitrust risks and best practices for avoiding them.

Dylan has served as counsel in some of the largest and most complex antitrust cases of all time. He has successfully represented key defendants in major government cartel investigations, federal criminal prosecutions, state Attorney General actions, and multi-district class actions involving dealer management software, canned tuna, DRAM, SRAM, and flash memory chips, automotive parts, LCD panels, cathode ray tubes, lithium ion batteries, and many other industries. He frequently represents companies in lawsuits brought by competitors or customers alleging conspiratorial conduct or unlawful monopolization.

Dylan also has extensive experience in the area of overlap between antitrust and intellectual property laws, including cutting-edge antitrust and competition issues arising from the use and licensing of standard-essential patents. His work frequently involves international issues requiring close collaboration with clients and counsel located around the world.

Clerkships

•Extern for the Honorable Maxine M. Chesney, District Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, 2005

Honors

Next Generation Lawyer, Legal 500, 2019

Recommended Lawyer- Antitrust, The Legal 500, 2019

Global Competition Review Award, Litigation of the Year - Cartel Defense, Motorola Mobility LLC v. AU Optronics Corp., 2015

Insights

Articles

•Amnesty and Its Punishments: ACPERA and the Future of U.S. AntitrustCartel Enforcement
The Legal 500 Country Comparative Guides Hot Topic, 04.2020
•Why aren't there more California below-cost pricing cases?
Los Angeles & San Francisco Daily Journal, 04.15.2019
•Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Vitamin C and the Future of U.S. Antitrust Enforcement Against Chinese Companies
The Legal 500 - Cartels Country Comparative Guide, 04.03.2019
•Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence and Joint Conduct
Competition Policy International, 05.16.2017
•When Illinois Brick Goes Abroad, Law360, March 13, 2015
•Mask For The Guilty And Shield For The Innocent: The Privilege Against Self-Incrimination In Federal and California Antitrust Cases, Competition: The Journal of the Antitrust and Unfair Competition Law Section of the State Bar of California, Vol. 22, No. 2, Fall 2013
•The Case For Eliminating ACPERA's Supplemental Cooperation Requirement For Amnesty Applicants, Competition: The Journal of the Antitrust and Unfair Competition Law Section of the State Bar of California, Vol. 20, No. 2, Fall 2011