On June 23, 2025, Senior Counsel Robert M. Langer will present at The Retail Benefits Group’s Annual Conference in Chicago. He will provide antitrust guidance to representatives of many of the major retailers in the U.S. regarding how to safely share certain information with competitors without running afoul of federal and state antitrust laws. He will also discuss recent significant competition-related initiatives of the United States Department of Justice, Antitrust Division; the Federal Trade Commission; and state attorneys general.
Bob is recognized as one of the country’s foremost authorities on antitrust, consumer protection, and trade regulation law, and has extensive experience counselling clients and speaking to numerous trade groups on a wide variety of competition, consumer protection, and constitutional law topics.
Before joining Wiggin and Dana in 1994, Bob served for two decades as an Assistant Attorney General and head of the Antitrust & Consumer Protection Department in the Connecticut Attorney General’s Office. Bob has also served as an adjunct law professor for the past forty-six years teaching antitrust law, unfair and deceptive trade practices law, and constitutional law at UConn Law School (2014-present), Quinnipiac University School of Law (2021-present), and UConn’s MBA Program (1979-2013). He has also written prolifically during his entire career on each of the aforementioned topics in a variety of scholarly publications.