Profile: Thomas Campbell

Competition

Biography: Competition

Tom Campbell is a partner in the Chicago office of Baker & McKenzie LLP, where he focuses on the trial of antitrust actions and business disputes. He has more than 30 years of experience trying cases in a wide variety of industries.

Mr Campbell has tried eight antitrust cases to conclusion and been on the winning side in seven. These include mergers challenged by the Department of Justice or the Federal Trade Commission and treble damage actions brought by private parties alleging monopolisation. Mr Campbell has also acted as lead counsel at trial and on appeal in other types of business disputes.

Mr Campbell has handled antitrust class action matters representing both plaintiffs and defendants. In a plaintiffs' antitrust class action, Mr Campbell acted as co-lead counsel for a class of hospitals and other direct purchasers and obtained a US$35 million settlement from the manufacturer of a generic drug, who had cornered the market and dramatically increased the price of the drug. In a class action challenging the validity of the National Resident Matching Program, the system by which medical school graduates apply for residency positions, he successfully represented the lead defendant obtaining a dismissal affirmed on appeal.

Mr Campbell is a member of the American Bar Association's section of antitrust law and has co-chaired its trial practice committee. He is a past chair of the Chicago Bar Association's antitrust law committee.

Mr Campbell's most recent article is "Defending Hospital Mergers After the FTC's Unorthodox Challenge to the Evanston-Northwestern - Highland Park Transaction", 16 Loyola University of Chicago, Annals of Health Law, 213 (2007).

Mr Campbell received his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College and his law degree from Cornell University.