Ethan Glass is a partner in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office focusing primarily on antitrust matters.

Mr. Glass is a rare first-chair antitrust trial lawyer, and a decorated veteran of the United States Department of Justice, Antitrust Division (most recently as an Assistant Chief). He has tried cases on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants; he has tried cases in both government and private actions; he has tried cases before both juries and judges; and he has tried cases in both federal and state courts.

In 2015, Mr. Glass was the lead lawyer on behalf of the United States in the successful trial and litigation blocking the merger of two major home appliance manufacturers, which was one of the largest and highest-profile merger challenges ever brought to trial in the United States. (The trial was covered regularly by the national and business press, including numerous articles in The Wall Street Journal.)

In 2014, Mr. Glass was one of the lead lawyers in the successful trial of a major credit card network’s anticompetitive conduct, another high-profile case widely considered to be one of the most difficult cases ever brought by the United States government under modern antitrust principles.

Mr. Glass served for almost a decade at the Department of Justice, Litigation III Section, first as Trial Attorney, then as Assistant Chief. During this time, Mr. Glass led investigation, litigation, and trial teams on many large-scale, high profile antitrust matters. He has been the lead lawyer in matters involving many industries, including major appliances, credit cards, financial exchanges, motion pictures, music, newspapers, sports and recreation, and real estate.

Mr. Glass received the Attorney General’s Distinguished Service Award (the Department of Justice’s second highest performance award). He was awarded two AAG Awards (the Antitrust Division’s top performance award)—one for the credit card litigation and trial and one for the challenge to the Comcast/Time Warner merger.

Before joining the Department of Justice, Mr. Glass was a successful trial lawyer in private practice. He was one of the lead trial and litigation lawyers in a patent infringement dispute relating to the manufacture of insulin-like growth factor-1. That case resulted in a jury verdict for Mr. Glass’s client after a three-week trial. Mr. Glass also was a member of the trial team in a four-month antitrust class action jury trial in Iowa state court alleging monopolization of markets for PC operating systems and productivity applications software.

Mr. Glass has had significant involvement in appeals. In addition to being the primary drafter of several appellate briefs, he was the lead lawyer in an appeal before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit—actually arguing the case against the United States.