J. Douglas Richards

J. Douglas Richards is a leading lawyer whose extensive experience litigating both Commodity Exchange Act and Sherman Act claims and expertise in the antitrust class action field is widely recognized.

Mr. Richards was named one of twenty-two antitrust "Litigation Stars" nationally, as one of the world’s leading competition lawyers by The International Who’s Who of Competition Lawyers and Economists (2014), and has received the highest available peer ranking for many years from Martindale-Hubbell. Mr. Richards has been appointed co-lead counsel in numerous large antitrust class actions in the Southern District of New York (SDNY) and nationally. Mr. Richards has argued dozens of appeals, among them a number of antitrust matters that have helped shape the landscape of antitrust law, including Bell Atlantic v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544 (2007) before both the Second Circuit and the United States Supreme Court, and Second Circuit cases like In re Tamoxifen Citrate Antitrust Litig., 429 F.3d 370 (2d Cir. 2005), cert. denied, 127 S.Ct. 3001 (2007), and Kruman v. Christie’s Int’l PLC, 284 F.3d 384 (2d Cir. 2002). Mr. Richards has unique expertise germane to a number of recent large class action cases involving antitrust claims concerning futures exchange trading and has recently withdrawn from various other antitrust cases to enable him to focus more fully on exchange-trading cases.