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Washington – June 6, 2024: Crowell & Moring earned 78 rankings for 67 lawyers, as well as 41 national and statewide practice area rankings, in the Chambers USA 2024 guide. The rankings are driven by independent interviews of clients and lawyers at peer firms.

Washington – January 11, 2023: Crowell & Moring has published Litigation Forecast 2023: What Corporate Counsel Need to Know for the Coming Year. The 11th-annual Litigation Forecast focuses on trends in litigation that are playing out in specific jurisdictions around the globe. 

Washington, D.C. – March 14, 2017: Crowell & Moring LLP is pleased to announce that client Owens & Minor Distribution, Inc., the nation’s largest distributor of medical-surgical supplies, prevailed in an appeal of summary judgment dismissing an antitrust tying and exclusive dealing lawsuit alleging over $200 million in damages brought by a competitor, specialty distributor, Suture Express, Inc.

Washington, D.C. – March 8, 2016: Crowell & Moring LLP is pleased to announce that client Owens & Minor Distribution, Inc. (O&M), the nation’s largest distributor of medical-surgical supplies, prevailed in an antitrust tying and exclusive dealing lawsuit alleging over $200 million in damages brought by a competitor, specialty distributor, Suture Express, Inc. (Suture Express). Suture Express challenged contracting practices that offer differential pricing to customers depending on whether they procure distribution of suture and endo products, which tend to be the most profitable, from O&M or Cardinal Health, a co-defendant to O&M in the case. Suture Express's theory was that the pricing differential was so large that it could not effectively compete for distribution of suture and endo products, and that customers have no choice but to agree because they need the other medical-surgical products that O&M and Cardinal Health, but not Suture Express, distribute. After extensive fact and expert discovery, O&M, along with its co-defendant Cardinal Health, filed a motion for summary judgment and Suture Express filed a cross motion for partial summary judgment on liability. On March 3, 2016, Judge Daniel D. Crabtree of the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas granted O&M and Cardinal Health's motion for summary judgment and denied Suture Express's motion, dismissing all claims and awarding defendants costs. Judge Crabtree found that Suture Express failed to provide sufficient evidence that either O&M or Cardinal Health possessed the market power necessary to support Suture Express’s claims, or that competition had been harmed. Judge Crabtree acknowledged that the undisputed facts revealed a competitive market in which distribution prices and margins have been declining. Judge Crabtree also found that O&M and Cardinal Health successfully established procompetitive benefits from the challenged contracting practices, which further negated Suture Express’s claims.

Washington, D.C. – January 22, 2015: Crowell & Moring LLP's Antitrust Group has again been recognized as "highly recommended" in Global Competition Review's (GCR) 15th edition of the "GCR 100: The World's Leading Competition Practices," in both the Washington, D.C. and New York categories. GCR is the leading international journal of competition policy and regulation.

Washington, D.C. – January 13, 2015: Crowell & Moring LLP is pleased to announce the publication of its third annual "Litigation Forecast: What Corporate Counsel Need to Know in the Coming Year," and the introduction of its first-ever "Regulatory Forecast 2015: What Corporate Counsel Need to Know in the Coming Year."

Washington, D.C. – August 28, 2014: The Best Lawyers in America 2015 selected 40 Crowell & Moring LLP attorneys as leaders in their field. Attorneys were selected through peer nominations. The following Crowell & Moring attorneys are listed by the respective practice areas for which they were selected:

Washington, D.C. – January 17, 2013: Crowell & Moring LLP is pleased to announce it has elected seven attorneys to the firm's partnership effective January 1, 2013. The firm has also promoted three attorneys to the position of senior counsel, and nine associates to the position of counsel. The new partners, senior counsel, and counsel have been promoted from within the ranks of the firm's Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Brussels, and London offices.

Washington, D.C. – September 4, 2012: The Best Lawyers in America 2013 selected 44 Crowell & Moring LLP attorneys as leaders in their field. Attorneys were selected through peer nominations.

Washington, D.C. – June 7, 2012: Crowell & Moring LLP is pleased to announce that it has secured 54 attorney rankings for 45 individual attorneys in the 2012 Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business guide. The prestigious rankings are driven by independent interviews of clients and members of the legal community at peer firms.