Leah Wisser is a Litigation and Trial associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Latham & Watkins, and a member of the Recruiting Committee.
Leah represents clients in antitrust litigation matters. Leah's litigation experience includes monopsonization, monopolization, information sharing, price-fixing, and mergers challenged by antitrust enforcement agencies. Leah has worked on antitrust litigation cases from initial filing through discovery through pre-trial, trial, and post-trial briefing. Leah's industry experience includes entertainment and media, music licensing, advertising, and agricultural products.
Leah maintains an active pro bono practice, including a focus on civil liberties and representing individuals seeking asylum. Leah and her case team received the ACLU’s Humanitarian Award for partnering with the ACLU in challenging the conditions at the Adelanto Detention Center in Hernandez Roman v. Wolf. Leah began her commitment to pro bono work by successfully representing asylum seekers before the Arlington Immigration Court through Georgetown Law’s Center for Applied Legal Studies.
While in law school, Leah was also a member of the American Criminal Law Review and the Trial Advocacy division of Georgetown Law’s Barristers’ Council. Leah's publications include Pandora’s Algorithmic Black Box: The Challenges of Using Algorithmic Risk Assessments in Sentencing, 56 AM. CRIM. L. REV. 1811 (2019).
Qualifications
Bar Qualification
District of Columbia
Education
JD, Georgetown University Law Center, 2019 cum laude
Latham litigation teams secured an appellate victory in rate-setting litigation under an antitrust consent decree governing Broadcast Music, Inc., and defeated the first-ever attempt to apply Washington's 1984 Telephone Buyers' Protection Act to modern smartphones in a consumer class action.
A Latham antitrust litigation team successfully defended Apple in a lawsuit accusing our client and others of colluding to inflate fees charged to merchants for point-of-sale transactions.
Latham team recognized as appellate court affirms previous decisions against the US Department of Justice's challenge to U.S. Sugar's purchase of Imperial Sugar.
Appellate opinion cements earlier multi-court successes against the US Department of Justice high-profile challenge to U.S. Sugar’s purchase of Imperial Sugar.
Firm’s antitrust litigators make history twice this month, defeating both the DOJ and the FTC in their attempts to block high-profile, impactful transactions.
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