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Carol Szurkowski Weiland

Special Counsel

Washington +1 202 662 5124

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    Carol Weiland represents clients in high stakes antitrust cases, with a particular focus on class actions and other complex litigation matters. She has obtained successful results for her clients at the motion to dismiss, class certification, and summary judgment stages. Carol represents clients across a range of industries, and has particular experience representing financial institutions and innovator pharmaceutical companies. She also regularly provides antitrust counseling advice to clients in the pharmaceutical, medical device, and healthcare spaces.

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    • Obtained dismissal of fifty consolidated antitrust class actions alleging auction manipulation and group boycotts in the U.S. Treasuries market and successfully defended that ruling on appeal. In re Treasury Securities Auction Antitrust Litigation (2d Cir. Feb. 1, 2024).
    • Defeated class certification in multi-billion dollar antitrust class action relating to the interest rate swaps market. In re Interest Rates Swaps Antitrust Litigation (S.D.N.Y. December 15, 2023).
    • Obtained dismissal of group boycott claim directed at the credit default swaps market. Tera Group v. Citigroup, Inc. (S.D.N.Y. August 14, 2023).
    • Obtained dismissal of monopolization claims against a leading pharmaceutical company relating to a treatment for prostate cancer. Louisiana Health Service & Indemnity Co. v. Janssen Biotech, Inc. (D.N.J. Oct. 27, 2021).
    • Defeated a putative class action against a leading lending institution by obtaining summary judgment on claims of fraud and deceptive practices to enroll customers in lending products. McMullen v. Synchrony Bank (D.D.C. Jan. 11, 2018).
    • Represented leading global company in defending antitrust allegations brought by the California Attorney General, reducing a multi-billion damages claim to a successful confidential settlement following summary judgment briefing.
    • Representing a leading technology company in antitrust class action challenge to its commercial agreements.
    • Representing a leading pharmaceutical company in nationwide antitrust class action involving monopolization claims.
    • Filed amicus briefs in various cases on behalf of a pharmaceutical industry association in federal courts of appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court.

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  • Credentials
    Education
    • Dartmouth College, A.B., 2009
        • magna cum laude
        • Phi Beta Kappa
    • Harvard Law School, J.D., 2014
        •  Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Deputy Editor-in-Chief
    Bar Admissions
    • District of Columbia
    • Texas
    Government Experience
    • U.S. Senate
    Judicial Clerkship
    • Hon. Dennis W. Shedd, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, 2014 - 2015
    Pro Bono
    • Briefed and argued an appeal as amicus curiae in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit regarding the denial of a petition for expungement of a criminal record.
    • Prepared Supreme Court amicus brief on behalf of family members of soldiers named on the Peace Cross in American Legion v. American Humanist Association (No. 17-1717).
    • Prepared Supreme Court amicus brief on behalf of 207 Members of Congress in Zubik v. Burwell (No. 14-1418).
    Accolades
    • Washington DC Super Lawyers, Antitrust Litigation "Rising Star" (2020-2024)
    Memberships and Affiliations
    • Federalist Society, Member 
    Previous Experience
    • Senate Judiciary Committee, Special Counsel, Judicial Nominations Unit
    • United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts, Legal Intern
    • Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Legal Intern

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