June Ann's principal area of practice is antitrust. She has acted as litigation counsel and has provided antitrust counseling and compliance programs for companies representing a broad range of businesses including entertainment, utilities, transportation, communications, healthcare, mining, agriculture, and service and manufacturing. She has served as Antitrust Counsel to trade groups such as the Southeastern Electric Exchange and the Intermodal Committee on Efficiency. On behalf of numerous clients, she has dealt with the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, and state attorneys general in connection with merger/acquisition investigations, civil antitrust investigations, and criminal antitrust grand jury investigations. Her litigation experience also includes copyright and trademark infringement, business tort claims such as tortious interference, restrictive covenant and trade secret claims, fraud and defamation, complex business disputes, and white collar crime. She has had significant experience in media and entertainment fields.

Representative Experience
Antitrust:
Represented a building products manufacturer in a price-fixing class action.

Obtained closure of a Federal Trade Commission investigation of a physician association

Represented an international construction company indicted for bid rigging

Represented a major chemical company in a suit alleging Robinson-Patman Act violations and claims arising from the termination of a licensee

Represented a major utility in a suit against a municipal utility alleging tying and an attempt to monopolize

Represented an arena and a ticketing service in a suit alleging tying

Obtained a jury verdict for a building products manufacturer in a terminated distributor suit

Represented a wrestling association, wrestling promoters and wrestlers in a series of suits alleging group boycotts and monopolization claims

Obtained a directed verdict for a major motion picture company in an antitrust action involving distribution of the motion picture “The Buddy Holly Story”

Represented six major motion picture companies in an antitrust suit involving distribution of motion pictures in Atlanta, Georgia, obtaining dismissal of action prior to trial

Represented clients in cement, manufacturing, and credit finance class actions

Represented companies and individuals in grand jury investigations in various manufacturing and construction industries

Obtained clearance from both the U.S. authorities and the Canadian Competition Bureau in an acquisition involving the two largest auto haulaway carriers

Obtained early termination of the Hart-Scott-Rodino waiting period in a merger of two major providers of a medical service

Intellectual Property:
Represented a t-shirt manufacturer in a trademark infringement action

Obtained summary judgment for a television programming distributor and a television station in suit by book author claiming copyright and trademark infringement, unfair competition, unfair and deceptive trade practices, false advertising, invasion of privacy, misappropriation of right of publicity, and defamation and trade libel

Had claims dismissed and obtained summary judgment on other claims for a rap music producer and others in a suit alleging copyright infringement and various tort claims

Obtained summary judgment, prior to discovery being conducted, for major motion picture company and well known actor in copyright infringement suit by author alleging that motion picture infringed her book

Represented cable programming service in copyright infringement action against a video monitoring service for copying of cable programming

Other:
Represented a home healthcare agency in civil and criminal actions for Medicare fraud

Represented a construction company in a False Claims Act suit

Represented a consumer finance company in an action for fraud

Represented a cotton seed oil mill joint venture in a suit alleging breach of contract and various state law tort claims

Represented producer of a television show in a suit alleging defamacast and other torts

Represented producer of a well known motion picture in an action by a talent agent alleging breach of contract and defamation

Presentations and Speaking Engagements 
Moderator, "Protecting Against Criminal Liability: Bid Rigging And The False Claims Act," 2009 AOD National Conference, Washington, D.C., November 10, 2009

Speaker, "Mergers and Acquisitions Under the Obama Administration: Reading the Tea Leaves," 2009 Meeting of TerraLex, Atlanta, Georgia, April 24, 2009

Speaker, "Antitrust Exemptions:  State Action, Trinko, and Credit Suisse," Antitrust Developments Seminar, Institute of Continuing Legal Education in Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia, February 1, 2008

Speaker,  "Antitrust Update for the ABA Corporate Counseling Committee," American Bar Association Antitrust Section Teleseminar, December 17, 2007

Speaker, “Mergers and Acquisitions: What’s New at the FTC,” Everything the In-House Counsel Needs to Know About Antitrust: The Latest Word from the Supreme Court, Georgia Bar Association Antitrust Section Seminar, February 3, 2006

Speaker, “Nonparties at the Party: CIDs, Subpoenas, and Other Nonparty Discovery in Merger Investigations,” American Bar Association Antitrust Section Teleseminar, May 10, 2005

Speaker, “Pro-Competitive Opportunities for Professional Associations,” Richmond Academy of Medicine, Richmond, Virginia, April 12, 2005

Speaker, “Pricing Issues for the Sales Force,” Tactical and Practical Antitrust Seminar, Institute of Continuing Legal Education in Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia, February 4, 2005

Speaker, “Hot Topics in Criminal Antitrust Enforcement,” Criminal Antitrust Subcommittee of the ABA Criminal Justice Section, White Collar Crime Committee, Washington, D.C., June 5, 2002

Speaker, “White Collar Crime 2002,” ABA-CLE 16th Annual National Institute on White Collar Crime 2002, American Bar Association Center for Continuing Legal Education, Miami Beach, Florida, February 28 - March 1, 2002

Speaker, “Expert Witnesses and Daubert Motions,” Federal Civil Trial Practice Program, Institute of Continuing Legal Education in Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia, April 19, 2001

Speaker, “Managed Care Antitrust Issues - What Can and Cannot Be Said to Whom,” 2000 Annual Fall Meeting of the Georgia Society for Managed Care, Young Harris, Georgia, October 5, 2000

Moderator, “Brown Bag Lunch with the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice,” Antitrust Division and ABA Antitrust Section, Atlanta, Georgia, February 29, 2000

Speaker, “Today’s Antitrust Issues for Business Practitioners,” Institute of Continuing Legal Education in Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia, October 29, 1998

Speaker, “To Prosecute or Not to Prosecute: Meeting With the Government,” ABA Section of Antitrust Law’s Advanced Criminal Antitrust Workshop, New York, New York, May 1, 1998

Speaker, “Federal Practice and Procedure Seminar,” Institute of Continuing Legal Education, Atlanta, Georgia, April 28, 1995

Speaker, “Antitrust Issues Raised by Joint Activity By Health Care Providers,” Georgia Optometric Association, Atlanta, Georgia, August 26, 1994

Speaker, “Current Issues in Antitrust Law,” Institute of Continuing Legal Education, Atlanta, Georgia, October 15, 1993

Speaker, “Recent Developments in Antitrust Law Affecting Franchise and Distribution Members,” Franchise and Distribution Law Committee, Atlanta Bar Association, December 3, 1992

Publications 
"Management Of Regulatory Risk In Light Of Recent Federal Trade Commission Sanctions Imposed On Messenger Model Networks," Health Lawyers Weekly, (March 5, 2004)