Why Antitrust V: Percy Foreman, Pavarotti and plumbing parts

07 February 2018

Carl LoPresti and Mark Rosman

In the fifth instalment of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati partner Mark Rosman’s reminiscences about working for the Department of Justice’s antitrust division, the young prosecutor struggles to support a colleague (given the pseudonym "Jim McWilliams") while nailing a local cartel.

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