Louis A. Kessler joined the firm in 2023 and focuses on complex antitrust and intellectual property class action litigation. He has devoted his career to advocating and seeking redress for consumers, investors, employees, and small businesses that have been harmed by fraud and other illegal business practices, and to creating effective deterrents to such practices.
Currently, Louis is involved in the firm’s multiple cases seeking redress for the owners of intellectual property—whether computer code, digital images, or books—that were used without consent, compensation, or credit to train commercial, generative artificial intelligence models. He is also involved in Demartini v. Microsoft Corporation, a private antitrust suit seeking to block Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision under the Sherman and Clayton Acts, and litigation against those who aided the fraud underlying the FTX cryptocurrency exchange collapse.
For eight years prior to that position, Louis was an attorney at top-tier plaintiffs’ firms in San Francisco and Chicago, where his practice covered complex civil litigation, particularly antitrust, securities fraud, and consumer fraud class actions. He has previously participated in litigated high-profile antitrust cases such as:
- In re Air Cargo Shipping Services Antitrust Litigation
- In re Aluminum Warehousing Antitrust Litigation
- In re AOL Time Warner Inc. Securities Litigation
- In re DRAM Antitrust Litigation
- In re Ethylene Propylene Diene Monomer (EPDM) Antitrust Litigation
- In re Merrill Lynch Research Reports Securities Litigation
- In re RC2 Corp. Toy Lead Paint Products Liability Litigation
- In re Rubber Chemicals Antitrust Litigation
- In re Salomon Analyst AT&T Litigation
- In re Sara Lee Corporation Securities Litigation
- In re TFT-LCD (Flat Panel) Antitrust Litigation
- In re Tronox, Inc. Securities Litigation
- Jon D. Gruber v. Ryan R. Gilbertson (Dakota Plains Securities Litigation)
- Sender v. Franklin Resources Inc.
Louis is a member of the American Bar Association.