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Experience:
Don Klawiter's practice focuses on antitrust investigations and litigation, with special emphasis on international cartel matters. He has defended corporations and executives from six continents in grand jury investigations and prosecutions including international cartel investigations in the food and feed additives, vitamins, graphite electrode, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, computer products, construction, glass, automotive, transportation, plastics and brokerage industries, and has served as international coordinating counsel in many multi-jurisdictional proceedings. Don has also led internal corporate crisis investigation teams in assessing antitrust risk, determining whether laws were violated, and formulating plans to resolve any issues consistent with current corporate governance requirements.
Don has trial experience as both a prosecutor and defense counsel in civil, criminal, and merger cases. He has held several senior supervisory and litigation positions with the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice, including Chief of the Dallas Field Office and special assistant to the Director of Operations of the Antitrust Division in Washington DC.
Don served as Chair of the American Bar Association's Section of Antitrust Law in 2005-2006 and currently serves as Chair of the Section's International Cartel Task Force. He previously served as Chair-Elect (2004-05), Vice Chair (2003-04), Program Officer (2001-03), Secretary (2000-01) and as chair of its Criminal Practice and Procedure Committee (1995-97). Don has been a regular speaker at, and organizer of, antitrust programs in the United States, Canada, England, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Austria, Russia, Turkey, Japan, Australia, and South Africa. He was the organizer, program co-chair, and speaker at the ABA Section of Antitrust Law's two-day International Cartel Workshops, which have been held six times between 1997 and 2006. He testified before the International Competition Policy Advisory Committee (ICPAC) on International Cartel Investigations (November 1998), twice before the U.S. Sentencing Commission (2005) and before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary (2006). He is the author of many articles and papers on topics ranging from defense strategy in cartel cases to leniency to antitrust civil remedies.
Don has been chosen as one of Chambers USA's "Leading Lawyers" in antitrust every year since 2003. He has also been recognized as one of the "Best Lawyers in America," "Super Lawyers" and Who's Who of International Competition Lawyers. Chambers 2007 wrote that Don's "recent tenure as chair of the ABA's antitrust section has consolidated his reputation as 'a household name' and, according to market sources, broadened his profile considerably. Few can match him as a 'razor sharp' expert on cartel investigations."
Education:
University of Pennsylvania Law School, JD, 1975, University of Pennsylvania, MA, (History), 1972, University of Pennsylvania, BA, 1972. | 