Two articles authored by WilmerHale lawyers have been selected for the 2025 Antitrust Writing Awards by Concurrences and George Washington University Law School Competition Law Center.

“Antitrust Division’s Implementation of the Department of Justice’s Safe Harbor Declination Policy – A Policy in Search of a Fact Pattern,” written by Thomas Mueller and John O’Toole, is nominated for best Business Article in the subcategory “General Antitrust.”  The article is one of 150 Business Articles selected and nominated by the Editorial Committee, out of 700 submitted.

“USA: Unpacking the shift – Heightened antitrust scrutiny on Orange Book listings,” written by Mark Ford and Kristen Parnigoni, with former WilmerHale senior associate Rochella Davis, has been nominated for the best Academic Article in the subcategory “Intellectual Property.” The article is one of 90 Academic Articles selected out of 400 submitted.

Voting is open until Friday, March 21, 2025. The Awards Jury will select one winning article per subcategory and will announce the laureates at the Awards Ceremony on Tuesday, April 1st, in Washington DC.

Concurrences is “an independent legal publisher, dedicated to antitrust law and competition economics.” Its writing awards are meant “to promote competition scholarship and to contribute to competition advocacy in the legal and economic fields” and are important recognitions for legal writing in this practice area. According to Concurrences, “[e]ach reader can vote only once per article and the votes are anonymous, with no personal information from the reader being stored on the website, except for non-personally identifiable data used by the computer system to exclude duplicate votes.”