Jennings, Strouss & Salmon, P.L.C.

Jennings Strouss provides advice and litigation services with regard to antitrust matters. The firm has served clients in the health care, utilities, dairy, resort, title insurance, construction, automobile, liquor, education, and other industries.

We have experience with a variety of antitrust issues, including claims involving price fixing and exclusive dealing arrangements, issues involving access to suppliers and denial of access to resources or to hospital staff privileges, and antitrust assertions against professions and regulated industries. We also have experience with claims of monopolization and refusals to deal, limits and guidelines for collaborative actions by competitors through alliances or industry associations, antitrust issues arising from mergers and acquisitions, Hart-Scott-Rodino premerger notification requirements, price discrimination restrictions, intellectual property licensing and joint venture activities.

Our antitrust attorneys have lectured before companies and industry groups on antitrust compliance and various emerging antitrust issues.

Representative Engagements

• Representation of a company in the acquisition of assets from an aircraft manufacturer divesting under close FTC scrutiny.
   
• HSR filings for clients selling their businesses in the private security and fuel supply industries.
   
• Defense of a hospital system in antitrust litigation arising out of acquisition of assets of another system.
   
• Advice to a hospital industry group on the exchange of cost and best practices information to improve health care delivery by all members.
   
• Advice to a major utility on cooperative purchase and cost sharing arrangements with a competing utility.
   
• Advice to a construction industry association on the antitrust implications of joint action to address common problems relating to contracting with public agencies.

STATEMENT OF COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY

Jennings Strouss continues to promote diversity by recruiting and retaining highly qualified individuals who represent diversity of opinion, personal experience and demographics. Our goal is to maintain and nurture this diversity in an environment that fosters excellence, achievement, and advancement of all qualified individuals regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, disability, religion, or position with the firm.

We retain excellent lawyers through regularly evaluating our recruiting focus, techniques, and strategies. We then make changes as necessary. Our recruiting committee expanded the on-campus interview program in 2007 to target students with diverse backgrounds and interests from law schools with significant minority enrollments and at minority student job fairs. The committee also is working on an outreach campaign to minority student organizations at various law schools around the country. Other demonstrations of our commitment to diversity are our continuing sponsorship of a law student in the annual Arizona State University Minority Writing Internship Program, a program that was started by our firm many years ago, and our sponsorship of the 2006 NBA Diversity Pipeline Program.

Our deep commitment to diversity is based on a solid belief that a multifaceted work environment can make us a better, smarter, and stronger law firm that has a positive influence in our communities.

JENNINGS STROUSS CORE VALUESWe are a diverse team that strives to provide the highest quality legal services to our clients by our commitment to these Core Values:

• Respect

   

  We show respect for each other and value diversity and inclusion both in the workplace and in dealing with others with whom we work.

• Communication

   

  We are committed to open and meaningful communication with each other and our clients.

• Diversity

   

  We have an unwavering commitment to diversity and to providing a professional environment that offers equal and nondiscriminatory access and opportunity to all employees.

• Balance

   

  We understand the importance of a healthy, balanced life and strive to help all employees achieve a healthy work-life balance.

• Recognition

   

  We encourage a workplace where each employee seeks on a daily basis to contribute to the success of the firm as a whole and is recognized for his or her contributions.

• Integrity and Excellence

   

  We are committed to excellence in the practice of law, and in so doing promote and adhere to the highest standards of ethics and professionalism.

• Public Service

   

  We have a strong commitment to our community and public service including pro bono work.

DIVERSITY ACTION COMMITTEE

Member Joel Greene serves as the firm's Chief Diversity/Retention Officer. Instrumental in the development and implementation of the firm's Core Values, he is dedicated to working with the Diversity Action Committee to reinforce those values in an environment that fosters excellence, achievement, and advancement of all.

Representing a cross section of the firm's employees, each Committee member works to ensure that the Jennings Strouss diversity initiatives are continually updated and carried out as the firm adapts to the changing realities of the modern workplace. The Diversity Action Committee continues to formulate implementation guidelines and initiatives for the firm's Core Values. Each member views him or herself as a catalyst for change, where needed, to promote diversity and an enhanced sense of community within the firm.