Steven Holtzman's main practice areas include antitrust, intellectual property and securities litigation.
Prior to joining Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, Mr. Holtzman was a Trial Attorney with the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice, in San Francisco. His professional experience with the Antitrust Division covered the full range of antitrust enforcement, including extensive criminal, merger, non-merger civil and policy work. He was a senior member of the trial and investigative team in United States v. Microsoft Corporation (D.D.C. 1998), and was co-lead or lead counsel in United States v. Alliant Techsystems and Aerojet-General Corporation (W.D.Il. 1994) and other matters involving defense contractor teaming arrangements.
He also has extensive telecommunications experience, including representing the United States in United States v. Sprint Communications, Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom (D.D.C. 1995), and representing clients such as AT&T, Texas Instruments, and Broadcom Corporation in a wide range of merger and litigation matters spanning a wide range of wireless and wireline telecommunications products and services. Mr. Holtzman also has extensive experience in matters involving the computer hardware and software industry, not only in antitrust but also in intellectual property (including representation of Napster in A&M Records et al. v. Napster Corporation, as well as representation of Internet startups raising copyright and other issues, and antitrust/patent-related work in the mobile wireless chipset industry) and securities (including representation of 3Com Corporation in Hirsch et al. v. 3Com).
Mr. Holtzman also has worked at the Consumer Protection Division of the Maryland Attorney General's Office and at Public Citizen, a public interest group, where he developed a residential energy conservation program. He has lectured and taught on topics relating to the intersection of antitrust and intellectual property law; the application of antitrust principles to standard-setting; antitrust enforcement in the software industry; defense contractor teaming arrangements, and tying law under Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act.