Enforcement Priorities in Advertising Law

Partner Christie Grymes Thompson served as session chair and moderator at the 58th Spring Meeting of the ABA Section of Antitrust Law, in Washington, D.C. The conference was a comprehensive review of developments in antitrust and consumer protection law. The meeting addressed antitrust and consumer protection issues, featuring a faculty that included leading antitrust lawyers from the U.S. and non-U.S. enforcement agencies, corporate law departments and law firms, as well as economists and academics.

Ms. Thompson participated in a panel titled ​“Enforcement Priorities in Advertising Law.” The session included representatives from the FTC, a state Attorney General, and the National Advertising Division of the Council of Better Business Bureaus for a discussion of current enforcement initiatives in false-advertising law as expressed in recent cases.