Summary of Experience
Jeffrey Dorman is a Partner in the Litigation Practice Group and his areas of focus include: Antitrust and Trade Regulation and Complex Disputes.
Mr. Dorman joined the firm after having been a partner with Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal in Chicago and an attorney with the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice. Mr. Dorman has over 30 years of experience in complex litigation, with primary emphasis in antitrust litigation, government contract litigation, state and local tax controversy matters, and litigation involving the use of statistical estimation, mathematical modeling, parametric estimating, system dynamics programming, and financial analysis. Mr. Dorman has represented clients in the Defense and Health Care industries in connection with litigation under the Federal False Claims Act.
In addition, Mr. Dorman has extensive experience counseling corporations on antitrust matters, including the development of a cost accounting system for a national food processor to determine whether proposed pricing changes comply with predatory pricing tests developed in the various circuits.
Publications
"Foundations of Quantitative Evidence" (book in progress discussing statistical techniques in the development of quantitative evidence and cross examination issues in dealing with opposing quantitative expert reports; completion date August 2007).
"The Role of Regression Analysis in Class Certification Decisions in Antitrust Cases", ISBA Antitrust & Unfair Competition Law Section (accepted for publication in Spring, 2007).
"Federal Jurisdiction Over International Antitrust Matters", ISBA Antitrust & Unfair Competition Law Section (2005). (Co-authored with Brian Norton).
"Calculation of Damages in Transnational Antitrust Case", 14 Loyola Consumer Review 559 (2001).
"Illinois Tax Agency Clarifies Unitary Business Issues Left Open After Allied Signal", 9 Journal of Multistate Taxation and Incentives 9 (1999).
"State Action Immunity - A Problem Under Cantor v. Detroit Edison", 27 Case Western Reserve Law Review 503 (1977).
"Transfers of Liabilities to Controlled Corporations", 1976 Wisconsin Law Review 1016.
Education
- JD: Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Editor, Law Review
- BA, with distinction: University of Michigan
- MS, 1976: University of Wisconsin
Bar Admissions
- Illinois
- Ohio (Inactive)
- United States Court of Appeals, Seventh and Ninth Circuits
- United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois
- United States District Court, District of New Jersey
- United States Court of Federal Claims
Board Roles, Memberships, Associations
- Member, Illinois Bar Association Antitrust & Unfair Competition Law Section Counsel
