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June 07, 2007

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Thelen Appointed Defense Liaison Counsel in SRAM Antitrust Litigation

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SAN FRANCISCO (June 7, 2007)—Thelen LLP was recently nominated by its 21 co-defendants, and appointed by United States Federal Judge Claudia Wilken of the Northern District of California, to be defense liaison counsel in the SRAM Civil Antitrust Litigation.

Plaintiffs in the SRAM cases allege that defendant manufacturers conspired to fix SRAM prices and allocate markets between 1998–2005.  SRAM, or “Static Random Access Memory,” is used in computers, cell phones, and other electronic devices.

Since U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division announced last fall that it was conducting a criminal investigation into alleged price fixing in the SRAM industry, more than 80 Federal court civil class actions have been filed in 30 states.  The cases were consolidated by the MDL panel and transferred to Oakland.

The firm's client in this matter is one of the semiconductor manufacturers.  Our team currently consists of partners Bob Pringle, Paul Griffin and Jonathan Howden, and associates Jonathan Swartz, Kathleen Kelly, Eva Chan, Matt Richards, Gina Fornario, Sonah Lee, Peter Hoefs, Nicole Duckett, Laura McKaskle, Rita Gevondyan, and Nadine Delich.

For the past five years, the firm has also been defending its client in similar criminal and civil class actions involving the DRAM memory chip industry.  These cases, most of which are still pending, are now among the largest in U.S. antitrust history.

 

For more information, contact:

Kevin Livingston
National Manager of Public Relations
Thelen LLP
415.369.7224
klivingston@thelen.com

 

About Thelen LLP
Thelen LLP is an international law firm with approximately 600 attorneys, and offices in New York, San Francisco, Washington, DC, Los Angeles, Silicon Valley, Hartford, Northern New Jersey, Shanghai, and London. The firm provides superior legal services in complex commercial litigation; corporate and capital markets transactions; project and asset finance; construction; labor and employment; intellectual property; information technology, domestic and international tax; employee benefits; government affairs; and real estate.

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