Overview
Alexandra (Alex) Lewis is a member of the Firm’s antitrust and competition practice, ranked “National Tier 1” by U.S. News & World Report, and designated a “Global Elite” and “Illinois Elite” practice by Global Competition Review. Alex focuses her practice on antitrust litigation, white-collar litigation and investigations brought by the US antitrust regulators and state attorneys general. Alex also works on mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions and antitrust compliance counseling.
Alex’s litigation experience includes bid rigging and price fixing, trade secret misappropriation, monopoly conduct and other unfair competition matters. She has also worked on regulatory reviews of proposed mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions and preparing materials for corporate antitrust compliance training presentations to large corporate clients.
In her active pro bono practice, Alex has represented an incarcerated individual in a Section 1983 civil rights claim for deliberate indifference to medical needs, an undocumented victim of domestic violence in application for U-Visa adjustment of status and work permit. Alex also participates in the Firm’s RISE program for minority owned entrepreneurs.
While in law school, Alex was a chapter director for the International Refugee Assistance Project and served as co-editor-in-chief for the Project’s inaugural student publication. In her role as chapter director, she did casework management, policy research and advocacy in Beirut, Lebanon, for international refugees seeking resettlement. Alex also provided pro bono legal services for undocumented individuals on a variety of immigration law issues and continues her immigration pro bono practice at McDermott.
In addition to her dedicated pro bono work, Alex completed a full-time externship with the Antitrust Division at the US Department of Justice in Washington, DC, and was an honors intern with the Enforcement Division at the US Securities and Exchange Commission in Los Angeles.
Results
- On a team that represents a large electronics company and individual defendants in trade secret misappropriation action.
- Part of trial team that represented a former CEO in first-ever criminal no-poach market allocation case. Following an eight-day jury trial, client was acquitted on all counts. (U.S. v. Davita & Thiry, No. 21-cr-229 (Dist. Co.)
- On a team that represented a large hospital system in FTC merger investigation.
- On a team that represents individual doctor in civil antitrust action against large hospital system.
Credentials
Education
University of California, Irvine, JD, pro bono honors, 2020
Tulane University, BA, International Relations, cum laude, 2016
Tulane University, BA, Spanish Language and Literature, cum laude, 2016
Admissions
Illinois
Languages
English
Spanish (limited proficiency)
