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Jane E. Willis, a partner in the Litigation Department, focuses on complex business litigation, including class action litigation. She is experienced in antitrust law, consumer protection law, securities law, and merger and acquisition-related disputes. In addition to handling litigation matters, Jane regularly provides advice and counseling regarding antitrust and intellectual property matters and engages in merger advocacy before the antitrust agencies.

Jane's clients include publicly-traded companies, mutual funds, real estate investment trusts, hospitals, and private equity funds and their portfolio companies involved in a wide variety of industries, including financial services, real estate, consumer products, sports, transportation, and health care.

Professional Experience

Jane's recent representations as lead counsel include:

• Lead counsel for publicly traded company in a multidistrict consumer class action arising out of consumer protection claims brought in 28 states.
   
• Lead lawyer for a transportation company in an antitrust case in federal court alleging violations of the antitrust laws, including allegations of conspiracy and illegal group boycott.
   
• First-chair trial counsel in a successful trial on behalf of a publicly traded real estate investment trust against HealthSouth involving the ownership of certain rehabilitation hospitals.
   
• Lead lawyer for the Boston Red Sox Baseball Club in connection with Senator Mitchell's investigation of the use of performance-enhancing substances in baseball.
   
• First-chair trial counsel in a successful trial in U.S. Bankruptcy Court on behalf of the Boston Red Sox Baseball Club.
   
• Lead counsel in successful motion practice in both federal and state courts for a plaintiff closed-end fund against Bulldog Investors.
   
• Lead arbitration counsel for publicly traded company in AAA arbitration under complex case procedures with three arbitrators in a matter involving a material supply contract.
   
• Lead counsel for plaintiff health care company in connection with suit against manager of health care facilities.
   
• Lead counsel in the defense on behalf of the Boston Red Sox Baseball Club of a preliminary injunction proceeding in U.S. District Court which would have prevented the establishment of an entertainment concourse on game days on Yawkey Way near Fenway Park.
   
• Lead counsel for a private equity firm in representations and warranties litigation in court in New York.
   

• Litigation Counsel of America, Fellow (to be inducted in fall 2008)
• Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business (2004-2008)
• Best Lawyers in America (2007)
• Super Lawyers, Corporate Counsel Edition, Business Litigation (2008)
• Massachusetts SuperLawyers (2004-2007)
• Top 50 Women Lawyers in Massachusetts, Boston Magazine (November 2005)
• Boston Business Journal's 7th Annual "40 Under 40" Awards (for business/community leadership)

• Jane E. Willis and Matthew P. Garvey, "Core Approach Is Incorrect - FTC v. WholeFoods Markets," National Law Journal (August 2008).
  
  
• Jane E. Willis and James W. Cobb, "Discrimination Under the Massachusetts Fair Housing Law - DeLiddo v. Oxford Street Realty, Inc., 450 Mass. 66 (2007)," Boston Bar Journal (May/June 2008).

• Boston Bar Foundation, Society of Fellows Committee
• The Boston Club (organization for women leaders)
• City on a Hill Charter Public High School, Trustee

• New York
• Massachusetts

• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit
• U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
• U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
• U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

• Honorable Robert E. Keeton, U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts (1994 - 1995)

• 1994, J.D., magna cum laude, Harvard Law School
• 1991, B.A. (Applied Mathematics), Harvard University; Phi Beta Kappa

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