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Areas of Practice

  • Advertising and Marketing
  • Advertising Compliance and Counseling
  • Advertising Litigation
  • Antitrust and Consumer Protection
  • Antitrust Litigation
  • Appeals
  • Class Action, Multidistrict Litigation
  • Cyber Investigations and Privacy Litigation
  • Cybersecurity Incidents
  • Issues and Appeals
  • Litigation
  • Retail and Consumer Products Litigation
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Profile

Carter’s practice focuses on antitrust and cybersecurity counseling, investigations, and litigation.

Carter maintains a diverse civil litigation practice, with a focus on antitrust, consumer, and cybersecurity claims and class action disputes. She advises and represents clients across a range of industries in civil and criminal antitrust investigations, merger challenges, and cases involving antitrust, business torts, RICO, false advertising, deceptive trade practices, data breach, employment, and intellectual property claims. Carter has particular expertise in the retail, food and beverage, and hospitality industries.

Carter served four years as a D.C. Bar delegate to the American Bar Association’s House of Delegates, and she is a past chair of the ABA Young Lawyers Division’s Civil Rights and Social Justice Committee. She also maintains an active pro bono practice, which includes regularly partnering with the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law on policy initiatives and federal litigation. Carter serves as a member of the firm’s pro bono committee and is a six-time recipient of its annual award for outstanding pro bono and public service.

Representative matters include:

  • Representing major U.S. infrastructure company in internal, regulatory, and congressional investigations stemming from data breach, and against three ensuing putative class actions.
  • Representing international manufacturer of electronic components against direct-action and class-action litigation concerning alleged price fixing.
  • Representing corporate opt-out and direct-action plaintiffs in several multi-district antitrust cases involving price fixing in the food supply chain.
  • Representing numerous retailers and electronics and consumer goods manufacturers against nationwide consumer class actions.
  • Represented one of world’s largest media conglomerates in internal and regulatory investigations stemming from data breach.
  • Represented major retail grocery chain in private challenge to consummated merger brought under Section 7 of the Clayton Act.
  • Represented major European retailer against claims of false advertising and other business torts stemming from entry into U.S. market.
  • Represented state-owned multinational energy company and one of largest U.S. medical device manufacturers in affirmative litigations against former employees for misappropriation of trade secrets and breach of non-compete and non-disclosure agreements.
  • Represented certified class of healthcare networks, schools, and restaurants that achieved one of the largest RICO settlements in history against major U.S. food distributor.

Education
BA, Duke University, History and English, 2007

Areas of Practice

  • Advertising and Marketing
  • Advertising Compliance and Counseling
  • Advertising Litigation
  • Antitrust and Consumer Protection
  • Antitrust Litigation
  • Appeals
  • Class Action, Multidistrict Litigation
  • Cyber Investigations and Privacy Litigation
  • Cybersecurity Incidents
  • Issues and Appeals
  • Litigation
  • Retail and Consumer Products Litigation

Professional Career



Articles

  • Magna Carta in 2015: The ABA Celebrates 800 Years of Individual Rights, Fall 2015 Newsletter, YLD Committee on Individual Rights and Responsibilities, American Bar Association
  • Hope-Fulfilling or Effectively Chilling? Reconciling the Hate Crimes Prevention Act with the First Amendment, 64 VAND. L. REV. 271
  • M&A Quarterly Reporter – 2021 Q3
  • Using Residual Class-Settlement Funds to Improve Access to Civil Justice, Fall 2016 Newsletter, YLD Committee on Civil Rights and Social Justice, American Bar Association
  • Exposing and Mitigating Implicit Biases in the Legal Profession, Spring 2016 Newsletter, YLD Committee on Civil Rights and Social Justice, American Bar Association
  • Overview of Private Merger Challenges Filed Since 2000
  • Recent Private Merger Challenges: Anomaly or Harbinger?, Antitrust

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