Brian D. Clark is a partner at LGN and co-chair of its antitrust practice. Mr. Clark serves on the Advisory Board for the American Antitrust Institute, has been consistently named as a Super Lawyer by his peers, and is ranked by Chambers USA. In 2021, Mr. Clark and his team receive the American Antitrust Institute’s Outstanding Achievement in Litigation Award. Mr. Clark has led the charge in many recent antitrust cases in the agricultural area, including price-fixing cases involving chicken, pork, beef, turkey, and peanuts. To date, in these cases alone, Mr. Clark has helped recover over $500 million.
Mr. Clark has been extensively involved in numerous nationwide antitrust class actions, including: In re Peanut Farmers Antirust Litig., No. 2:19-cv-00463 (E.D. Va.) (personally appointed co-lead counsel); In re Pork Antitrust Litig., No. 18-CV-01776 JRT-HB (D. Minn.) (Co-Lead Counsel); In re Broiler Chicken Antitrust Litig., No. 16-CV-08637 (N.D. Ill.) (Co-Lead Counsel); In re Beef Purchasers Antitrust Litig. (aka, Peterson v. JBS USA Food Co. Holdings et al.), No. 0:19-cv-01129 (D. Minn.) (Co-Lead Counsel); In re Turkey Antitrust Litig., No. 1:19-cv-08318 (N.D. Ill.) (Co-Lead Counsel); In re Surescripts Antitrust Litigation, No. 1:19-cv-06627 (N.D. Ill.) (Co-Lead Counsel); Kleen Prods. LLC, et al. v. Int’l Paper, et al., No. 10-cv-05711 (N.D. Ill.) (Plaintiffs’ Executive Committee); In re Liquid Aluminum Sulfate Antitrust Litig., No. 2:16-md-02687 (D.N.J.) (represented indirect purchaser plaintiffs); In re Resistors Antitrust Litig., No. 3:15-cv-03820 (N.D. Cal.) (represented indirect purchaser plaintiffs); and In re Capacitors Antitrust Litig., No. 3:14-cv-03264 (N.D. Cal.) (represented indirect purchaser plaintiffs).
Mr. Clark has extensive e-discovery experience and expertise. Mr. Clark leads LGN’s e-discovery practice group, in which he advises clients of all sizes on e-discovery matters, and taught e-discovery at the University of Minnesota Law School for five years. Mr. Clark is the founder and President of the Complex Litigation E-Discovery Forum, a plaintiffs’ attorney e-discovery group with hundreds of members focused on e-discovery best practices and strategies. He is also a former member of the Sedona Working Group 1 Steering Committee.
Mr. Clark is a 2009 magna cum laude graduate of the University of Minnesota Law School where he was elected Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Minnesota Journal of International Law and was a member of the Order of the Coif. Before law school, Mr. Clark was an AmeriCorps volunteer in Alaska and a canoe guide in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness of Northern Minnesota.
