Senior Attorney, National Taxpayers Union Foundation
Tyler Martinez is a Senior Attorney at the Taxpayer Defense Center, the strategic litigation arm of National Taxpayers Union Foundation. He has experience setting up nonprofit public interest arms for multiple organizations in the Washington, DC area and thus has experience in First Amendment, Tax, and Administrative Law. He has practiced strategic litigation against government overreach since 2011, handling federal and state cases across the country.
Tyler’s interest in strategic public interest work and in tax law comes down to the simple principle: getting the government out of people’s business. Transparency is for the government, but privacy is for the people. He finds and focuses on examples of government overreach particularly those involving use of private information, dragnet data collection, and other attacks on privacy of association.
Tyler earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Colorado Law School, while winning accolades for his advocacy skills and serving as Executive Editor of the Journal on Telecommunications and High Technology Law. He is licensed to practice law in Colorado and the District of Columbia. He is further admitted to the bars of the following federal courts: Supreme Court of the United States, D.C. Circuit, First Circuit, Second Circuit, Third Circuit, Fourth Circuit, Fifth Circuit, Eighth Circuit, Tenth Circuit, and various federal district courts across the country.
Partner, Jones Day
Anthony Dick's practice focuses on constitutional, appellate, and complex civil litigation, with a particular focus on challenges to government regulation. He has successfully briefed several cases in the U.S. Supreme Court and has argued cases in multiple U.S. Courts of Appeals, including the Fourth, Sixth, Seventh, and Ninth Circuits.
Anthony has worked on several high-profile First Amendment matters, including those involving free speech and Anti-SLAPP laws. His constitutional experience also includes representing the City of Detroit regarding the constitutional issues involved in reducing its public pension obligations in the largest municipal bankruptcy in history.
Before joining the Firm, Anthony served as a law clerk to Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. of the United States Supreme Court and Judge Thomas B. Griffith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Anthony is a member of the Edward Coke Appellate Inn of Court. He also serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE).
Senior Associate General Counsel/Senior Legal Advisor, Office of Management and Budget/CFPB
Victoria Dorfman is a Senior Associate General Counsel at the Office of Management and Budget and is a Senior Legal Advisor at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. At the OMB, she advises on constitutional and statutory issues. At the CFPB, she is primarily responsible for Enforcement, Supervision, Fair Lending, Oversight, and the Bureau’s litigation.
Prior to entering government service, Victoria was a partner at Jones Day, in Washington, D.C. and in New York, where she represented clients in appellate and complex commercial litigation in U.S. courts and in international arbitration. She has successfully briefed cases at all stages of litigation and argued before federal and state courts of appeals.
Victoria's areas of in-depth experience include jurisdiction and civil procedure, arbitration, bankruptcy, antitrust, and general commercial litigation. She maintained an active First Amendment Establishment and Free Exercise practice and represents religious institutions. Victoria's representations included obtaining unanimous victories in intergovernmental tax immunity and forum non conveniens cases in the U.S. Supreme Court; bankruptcy confirmations, including in appellate and Supreme Court proceedings, of Chrysler, the City of Detroit, Caesar's, Adelphia, and Relativity Media; UNCITRAL and BIT arbitrations; victories for Bayer in antitrust patent challenges to agreements regarding a blockbuster drug's production; and a damages award for Chevron against the government, including a sanction for bad faith litigation conduct.
Prior to joining Jones Day, Victoria clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas of the United States Supreme Court and Judge Michael J. Luttig of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. Victoria received her A.B. from Harvard College (cum laude) and J.D. from Harvard Law School (magna cum laude), where she was Articles, Books and Commentaries editor on Harvard Law Review.
Victoria is a native speaker of Russian, and is proficient in French and Portuguese. She published articles on Religion Clauses, bankruptcy, federal jurisdiction and statutory interpretation, and is a contributing author and editor of The Practitioner's Guide to Appellate Advocacy.
Partner, Jones Day
David Raimer focuses his practice on appellate advocacy and coordinating briefings in complex, multijurisdictional proceedings. He has experience in a wide range of substantive legal areas, including labor and employment law, efforts to obtain discovery in aid of foreign proceedings, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), contract disputes, and cases involving First Amendment or religious freedom issues.
David has litigated matters at all levels of the U.S. court system, including the United States Supreme Court, and has represented clients in cases pending before international and domestic arbitration tribunals. In the process, he has presented oral argument before appellate and district courts, drafted dozens of appellate briefs and dispositive motions, and coordinated parallel proceedings across multiple jurisdictions. Among other things, David helped an employer secure a rare victory before the Second Circuit in a case challenging a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) unit determination. He was also part of the team that successfully obtained relief for more than 60 religious nonprofit organizations in a challenge to federal regulations that had made it impossible for those entities to offer health coverage in a manner consistent with their beliefs.
David maintains an active pro bono practice and has represented clients in appeals involving compelled speech, First Amendment retaliation claims, and immigration law.
Partner, Co-chair of the Litigation & Trial Practice Group, Alston & Bird LLP
Adam Biegel is co-chair of Alston & Bird’s Litigation & Trial Practice Group and former co-chair of its Antitrust Team. He has substantial experience representing clients on antitrust counseling and litigation matters, including those involving government and internal investigations, mergers and joint ventures, pricing and distribution, compliance counseling and training, pre-merger reviews under the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act, and multidistrict litigation. He regularly represents clients before the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division, Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and state attorneys general, and in federal courts.
Adam is recognized for his antitrust experience by Chambers USA and selected to The Best Lawyers in America®, including his recognition as “Lawyer of the Year” for Antitrust Litigation in Washington, D.C., in 2022. He is a longtime member of the American Bar Association Antitrust Law Section’s leadership, currently serving as co-chair of its In-House Counsel Task Force and previously having served on its board, and chaired its Corporate Counseling Committee, Long Range Planning Committee, and Spring Meeting conference. He also serves on the board of the Federalist Society’s antitrust practice group.
Adam served as a law clerk to the Hon. Frank M. Hull, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Before attending law school, he worked as a newspaper reporter in Arkansas and on the legislative staff of U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch.
Deputy Director of the Bureau of Competition, Federal Trade Commission
Ian Conner serves as the Deputy Director of the Bureau of Competition at the Federal Trade Commission. He previously was a partner in the Antitrust & Competition practice at Kirkland & Ellis LLP in Washington, DC. Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Conner was a Trial Attorney in the Transportation, Energy and Agriculture Section of the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.
Senior Antitrust Counsel,, Tennessee Attorney General’s Office
Vic is Senior Antitrust Counsel in the Tennessee Attorney General’s Office and serves as Tennessee’s chief counsel for all state and multistate antitrust investigations and litigation. He also enforces Tennessee’s Nonprofit Act with a special focus on hospital transactions and conducts investigations on behalf of the Tennessee Ethics Commission. He is admitted to practice before all state courts in Tennessee, the U. S. Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and United States District Courts for the Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of Tennessee. Vic was named Chair of the NAAG Antitrust Task Force in 2015 and has served as a member of the Long Range Planning Committee of the Antitrust Law Section of the American Bar Association and as a Co-Chair of the State Enforcement Committee. He has written and spoken on numerous antitrust and nonprofit matters and is currently on the Editorial Board of the ABA publication Antitrust Law Developments Updates. He has also planned or participated as a panelist on several ABA teleconferences programs and Spring Meeting sessions. Vic received his J.D. from Rutgers University School of Law and has a B.A. in Economics from Vanderbilt University
Senior Associate, Baker Botts L.L.P., Washington, DC
Jeffrey Oliver is an Associate in the firm’s Antitrust and Competition Practice. Mr. Oliver advises clients on all aspects of antitrust law, with an emphasis on U.S. and international merger reviews. Mr. Oliver has obtained antitrust clearance for transactions in a wide variety of industries, with significant experience in oil and gas, pharmaceuticals, chemicals and trade associations.
Prior to joining Baker Botts, Mr. Oliver was a Staff Attorney at the Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of Competition. There, Mr. Oliver’s practice focused on merger and conduct investigations in the oil and gas industry. Mr. Oliver has experience in all phases of the FTC’s investigation process, from reviewing HSR filings to challenging mergers in litigation.
Senior Deputy Attorney General, Antitrust Section, Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office
Jennifer A. Thomson serves as a Senior Deputy Attorney General in the Antitrust Section of the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General, which she joined in March of 2003. She practices Antitrust Law, specializing in Intellectual Property, Healthcare and Airline matters, along with a wide array of other industries. Ms. Thomson has given presentations with the American Bar Association, the National Association of Attorneys General, the United States Department of Justice, the American Antitrust Institute and the United States Patent and Trademark Office. She authored several papers on topics such as the proposed merger of Highmark and Independence Blue Cross, State Action of the states' objection to the Google Book Search Settlement.
Ms. Thomson earned her J.D. in 2002 from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where she was an inaugural Fellow for the Samuelson/Glusko Fellowship in IP/Technology Law. As part of this fellowship, she prepared a paper on antitrust in the motion picture industry, which received from the University of Pittsburgh faculty the Thomas M. Cooley, II Legal Writing Award for Most Distinguished Paper. She is admitted to the bars of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the United States District Courts for the Western, Middle and Eastern Districts of Pennsylvania, the Untied States District Court for the District of Columbia and the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. She is a member of the American Bar Association Antitrust Section and the State Enforcement Committee. She has been designated by the Chief Attorney General to sit on their behalf on the State Board of Cosmetology from 2003-2017, the Real Estate Commission Since Fall, 2017, and was recently appointed to serve as part of the Advisory Committee of the Review of the State Professional and Occupational Licensure Board Requirements and Processes pursuant to Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf's Executive Order 2017-03.
Professor of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law
Professor Willis joined the UF Law Faculty in 1981, having taught previously in the New York University Graduate Tax Program. He teaches tax courses in both the J.D. and the Graduate Tax Programs plus Family Law Economics and Accounting and Finance for Lawyers. In the fall of 2013, Professor Willis took a sabbatical from teaching in order to lend his expertise in tax law to Hobby Lobby Stores in its religious liberty fight against the PPACA. To this end, he authored the lead article in volume 65 of the South Carolina Law Review titled: Corporations, Taxes, and Religion: The Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Contraceptive Cases. He is also the lead author for the amicus curiae brief on behalf of Freedom X in support of Hobby Lobby and Conestoga.
Professor Willis is licensed to practice law in Florida, a member of the Louisiana Bar, and a CPA (inactive) in Louisiana. He is a faculty advisor for numerous student groups such as the Christian Legal Society and the Law College Republicans. He has also honorably served as the faculty advisor for the student chapter of the UF Federalist Society since its inception.
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