Ellen Jalkut

Ellen Jalkut has spent her career developing legal strategies based on detailed analysis and critical thinking. With a focus on antitrust law, she prosecutes actions involving price-fixing, unlawful monopolization and other anticompetitive practices. Ms. Jalkut draws from her knowledge in economics, along with experience representing clients in white collar defense, contract disputes, and government enforcement actions to bring a broad perspective to each case. She currently works on the team representing a class of end-user purchasers of external hard disk drives and computers who claim overcharges resulting from a price fixing conspiracy in In re HDD Suspension Assemblies Antitrust Litigation and represents a proposed class of purchasers of broadcast television spot advertising alleging that defendants engaged in a scheme to artificially inflate prices in violation of federal antitrust law. Additionally, Ms. Jalkut is on the team representing a proposed consumer end-user class in In re Granulated Sugar Antitrust Litigation.

Prior to law school, Ellen worked in economic consulting and earned her Master’s of Arts from the Economics Department at the University of Michigan, Rackham Graduate School. She relied upon her economics background in her early legal career, working closely with experts in defending clients in securities and antitrust actions. After practicing for several years, she clerked for Judge William G. Young in the District of Massachusetts.

Education

• University of Michigan, J.D., cum laude (2003); Journal of Gender and Law, Editor
• University of Michigan – Rackham Graduate School, M.A. in Economics (2002)
• Wellesley College, B.A. in Economics, magna cum laude (1999)

Representative Matters

Articles

• Chambers and Partners Collective Redress & Class Actions Trends and Developments
  Emerging Trends in New York Class Action Litigation – Standing (February 26, 2024)
• “Prior User Rights Expansion: Congress, the Courts, and Constitutional Considerations,” BNA’s Patent, Trademark & Copyright Journal (2011)