The case for witnesses keeping it simple in antitrust cases and Asean’s competition challenge

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🗓️ 2 April 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Expert witnesses that struggle to converse in a way that is accessible to both judges and juries and who can’t write a report that doesn’t run into thousands of pages may be doing more harm than good to the antitrust case they are supporting. According to a judge who spoke at a recent American Bar Association antitrust conference, the quality of an expert witness can make or break a competition lawsuit. Also on today’s podcast, the case for Southeast Asian countries to work together in regulating both international and home-grown digital companies.

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0:00.0	Hello, great to see you again, James Panicki with you and welcome to yet another MNX podcast
0:15.6	with the very latest and most significant news in regulatory affairs brought to you with the assistance of our team of
0:22.6	reporters around the world. This week, something of a particular focus to talk about our new
0:28.7	special report covering the American Bar Association's Antitrust Spring Meeting 2021.
0:35.3	Kushita Vassant and Max Villian were part of our team of reporters covering the event
0:39.7	and they will be joining us to tease out some of the big issues that emerged during the conference.
0:45.8	And you might want to have our special report at your virtual fingertips before we get started.
0:50.9	If so, just go to MlexmarketingSight.com, and you'll be able to download a copy in a few
0:57.0	easy steps. Mlexmarketingsite.com. After that, we'll cross to Southeast Asia to talk about
1:03.9	recent antitrust initiatives by the ASEAN regional grouping. Emlex's reporter Jetemazo-Santos
1:10.3	will be with us in just over 15 minutes from now.
1:14.2	Well, yes indeed. The ABA antitrust conferences are always a focal point of Mlex's coverage.
1:21.0	The spring conference was held online, of course. Nonetheless, there was plenty of ground covered
1:26.6	and no stone was left unturned by our
1:30.1	reporters. To tease out some of those themes, I'm joined now by Cushita Vassant, a senior antitrust
1:35.7	reporter based in Washington, D.C., and Max Filian, an antitrust correspondent, also working out of
1:42.2	our DC Bureau. Max, starting from you, the Federal Trade
1:47.0	Commission and its acting chairwoman Rebecca Slaughter announced a new rulemaking group at the
1:52.8	conference, which garnered a lot of attention. What did the discussion look like on that front?
1:59.2	Sure. Yeah, they announced it on the Thursday of the
2:04.0	conference. They always like to make a little news. So that was their big announcement. And it's
2:09.4	an endeavor that the agency hasn't really taken on since the Reagan era. And so they're just
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