Alicia Jovais represents market-leading companies in all aspects of antitrust litigation and related counseling.
Ms. Jovais draws on extensive experience and her solutions-focused approach to devise actionable strategies for clients relating to:
She helps multinational companies navigate the nuances inherent in complex antitrust litigation, and partners with clients to fully understand their commercial objectives.
Bringing a wealth of litigation experience to each matter, Ms. Jovais regularly conducts witness examinations and argues pre-trial matters in court. Her first-chair deposition experience includes deposing economic experts, fact witnesses, and corporate representatives.
Ms. Jovais maintains an active pro bono practice, with a focus on representing clients in asylum proceedings.
Before joining the firm, Ms. Jovais served as a law clerk to Judge Mary M. Schroeder of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
During law school, she was a judicial extern to Magistrate Judge Joseph C. Spero of the Northern District of California and a law clerk in the Civil Division of the US Attorney’s Office in San Francisco.
Ms. Jovais’ experience includes representing:
The Latham team representing BMW won Litigation of the Year – Cartel Defence for securing a dismissal with prejudice from Judge Charles Breyer of the US District Court for the Northern District of California.
Insurance litigation of national importance for policyholders was chosen as a Top Appellate Reversal for 2020.
Latham’s success leading the joint defense effort that secured the complete dismissal, with prejudice, of all claims against our client BMW and several other German automakers in the so-called “Circle of Five” emissions conspiracy litigation was chosen among the Top Defense Verdicts of 2020.