
Kellie Safar-Lerner focuses her practice on representing consumers, businesses and governmental entities in complex antitrust actions in the pharmaceutical, automotive, chemical and food industries. Since joining the Firm, Ms. Safar-Lerner has litigated a wide variety of antitrust claims, including price-fixing, unlawful boycotting, monopolization, and monopoly leveraging cases. Currently, Ms. Safar-Lerner is representing clients in the following cases: In re Abbott Laboratories Norvir Antitrust Litigation, In re New Motor Vehicles Canadian Export Antitrust Litigation, and In re Payment Card Interchange Fee and Merchant Discount Antitrust Litigation.
She is a member of the New York State Bar Association, Commercial & Federal Litigation Section – Antitrust Committee, the Women in Antitrust Committee, and the Federal Bar Council. She has also provided pro bono assistance to the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and the AARP.
Ms. Safar-Lerner obtained a B.A. from Rutgers University in 1999, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa and with honors. She received a J.D. from Rutgers Law School in 2003. While in law school, she served as Managing Editor of the Rutgers Computer and Technology Law Journal and as a Board Member of the Moot Court Board. She also worked as a Legal Aide in the Antitrust Bureau of the New York Attorney General’s Office.
Ms. Safar-Lerner is admitted to practice in New York and New Jersey.