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Brent W. Landau

1604 Locust St, 2nd Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19103
215-985-3273 ph
215-985-3271 fax
blandau@hausfeldllp.com
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Mr. Landau is a partner in Hausfeld LLP’s Philadelphia office. His practice focuses on representing plaintiffs in complex antitrust and consumer protection litigation. He has litigated claims of price-fixing and monopolization involving products and industries as varied as vitamins, microprocessors, transparent tape, medical devices, and stock car racing. In other cases, his clients have included consumers defrauded by manufacturers of “light” cigarettes and Indonesian villagers subjected to human rights abuses. The Legal 500 has recommended him as “very professional and personable.”

Mr. Landau graduated from the State University of New York at Binghamton, where he received a B.A. in History and Philosophy (summa cum laude, 1998) and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He obtained his law degree from Harvard Law School (cum laude, 2001), where he was co-chairperson of the Tenant Advocacy Project and a supervising editor of the Harvard Journal on Legislation.

After law school, Mr. Landau served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Bruce W. Kauffman, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He then worked for six years at Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll, P.L.L.C. before joining Hausfeld LLP.

Mr. Landau has been invited to speak on panels regarding the antitrust laws and other topics and is the author of several published articles. He is a member of the editorial board of The Antitrust Practitioner, an editor of Antitrust Law Developments, and a mediator in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Landlord-Tenant Appellate Mediation Program.

Currently, among other matters, Mr. Landau is counsel for the plaintiffs in In re Air Cargo Shipping Services Antitrust Litigation, MDL No. 1775 (E.D.N.Y.), which has resulted in over $450 million in settlements to date.

Education

State University of New York at Binghamton, B.A., summa cum laude, 1998;

Harvard Law School, J.D., cum laude, 2001

Bar Admissions

Pennsylvania

New York

District of Columbia

United States District Court for the District of Columbia

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Affiliations & Honors

Judicial law clerk to Honorable Bruce W. Kauffman, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (2001-2002)

Member, Editorial Board, The Antitrust Practitioner

Editor, Antitrust Law Developments

Mediator, Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Landlord-Tenant Appellate Mediation Program

Recommended Lawyer, Legal 500 (2010)

News & Publications

CNNMoney.com Quotes Brent Landau on FTC Suit Against Intel, December 16, 2009

Author, "State Employees and Sovereign Immunity: Alternatives and Strategies for Enforcing Federal Employment Laws," 39 Harv. J. on Legis. 169 (2002)

Author, "State Bans on City Gun Lawsuits," 37 Harv. J. on Legis. 623 (2000)

Author, "Sovereign Immunity and You: How New York State Employees Can Enforce Their Federal Employment Rights," United University Professions Working Paper Series (Dec. 2005) (presented at November 2005 UUP conference on “Preserving the Rights of Public Employees”)

Presentations

ABA Section of Antitrust Law, Types of Restraints that Violate Section 1 (2010)

United University Professions, Preserving the Rights of Public Employees (2005)