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Is associate lawyer the unhappiest job?
Looking at my Facebook newsfeed last night I saw that a friend (well, a Facebook friend, you know) had posted a story on how, according to a Forbes’ story, associate attorney is the No. 1 in a list of...
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Speaking slots for sale
I landed in Brussels this morning at 7 am after an intense week of cocktails antitrust events at the ABA’s antitrust spring meeting in DC. I’m knackered (I also have to recover from the sight of 2,700...
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Sunshine lawyering
Being a competition lawyer one cannot help but to be interested in the competitive dynamics of the very market in which we operate. There are a few odd things to it, but I usually -although not on...
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A stupid post
You already know this trick: busy days= attempts at light funny or stupid posts. Today’s post isn’t particularly funny, but it sure is particularly stupid. Even though it’s not prima facie related to...
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Leave of absence
The question that I get the most often from readers of Chillin’Competition relates to how I manage to reconcile an already quite time consuming job –and a few adjacent academic and business activities...
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Back to blogging + post hearing thoughts
I’m back to blogging after my leave of absence from for work. As some of you know, on Wednesday we had the oral hearing in case T-79/12, Cisco v Commission (Microsoft/Skype) . I will of course not...
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A handy copyright infringement
(Warning: this is a fairly uninteresting post with no legal content whatsoever, so feel free to skip it. The reason why I’m posting it comes at the last paragraph) I’d anticipated another post on...
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Mens Sana in Corpore Sano
Our motto (above) says it all. At chillingcompetition, we like people who combine business and pleasure. And we are particularly fascinated by those who mix serious lawyering and sport. Alfonso is...
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Antitrust tidbits
- On Friday Brazil’s CADE announced that it’s also investigating Google pursuant to a complaint filed by Microsoft (see here). The investigation appears to address the very same practices previously...
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Two-sided markets in merger and abuse of dominance cases
When you have a 8 9 10 to 9 ? job it’s often quite hard to do things on the side, and, between us, it may not make much sense that many of them are work-related. Only this month, and in addition to...
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What makes a great lawyer?
In the course of a conversation last weekend someone asked me about who I thought were the best competition lawyers in Brussels. Not that I’m going to share my thoughts on that here because it...
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Conflicts of Interest in EU Competition Law
It’s been two months since Nicolas temporarily left this blog for a half a year stint at DG Comp’s Private Enforcement Unit. In the course of this short period he’s managed to single handedly unblock...
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The General Court on the scope of the Commission’s powers to request information
On Friday 14 March the General Court issued seven Judgments in cases T-292/11, T-293/11, T-296/11, T-297/11, T-302/11M T-305/11 and T-306/11. We represented one of the seven applicants (needless to...
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Wrapping up the week (on SEPs, Uber, Tesla, lawyer moves and legal rankings)
This week’s blogging inactivity has had a lot to do with a pile of new and old work, the fact that I’m moving houses and have the in-laws here (a painful process; the moving, I meant), the fact that I...
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A competition law anecdote in the FT
Last Wednesday’s Financial Times featured a competition law related anecdote that might have gone unnoticed to many of you. It’s told in a letter to the editor written by Craig Pouncey (managing...
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A comment on Case T-79/12 Cisco Systems and Messagenet v European Commission...
On 15 February 2012, Cisco Systems and Messagenet appealed the Commission’s decision authorizing the purchase of Skype by Microsoft. On 11 December 2013, the General Court rendered its Judgment...
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The Diluted Legality of Competition law
In the past days a Commission official who ranks among my preferred legal minds expressed her/his though that our discipline may not be as legal as we often think. The thought, formulated on the fly...
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Speaking engagements
Minutes after I published the post on endives’ right to be forgotten I received a call from the European Data Protection Supervisor’s office. At first I admit I thought it was someone (my first...
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On selectivity and alleged fiscal State aid (today’s Judgments in Cases...
I’m writing under the influence of a few bottles of Champagne opened to celebrate two landmark Judgments rendered this morning by the General Court annulling the Commission’s decision that ruled the...
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