Alysia A. Solow is a partner at the law firm of Constantine Cannon and directs the firm's E-Discovery practice group.
Ms. Solow has practiced at the firm since 1997 and has broad experience in antitrust litigation and counseling, as well as complex commercial litigation and arbitration. Ms. Solow's practice focuses on media counseling and litigation in the telecommunications, advertising and publishing industries. Other representative industries include airlines, payment systems, and insurance. She represents clients in both federal and state court and counsels clients on matters before the Department of Justice, Federal Trade Commission, Federal Communications Commission and American Arbitration Association. Ms. Solow has also conducted internal client audits and has implemented and managed compliance and monitoring programs.
As head of the firm's E-Discovery practice group, Ms. Solow is involved in all legal and technology issues relating to electronic discovery. She counsels clients on the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure relating to e-discovery and prepares clients for meet and confers and 30(b)(6) depositions on ESI infrastructure, collection and preservation issues. Ms. Solow's clients rely on her expertise to develop cost-effective strategies to manage vendors and the document review process to significantly reduce discovery costs. Most recently, Ms. Solow supervised all aspects of e-discovery for one of the largest antitrust matters in the country, with an expedited discovery schedule and approximately 200 million pages produced.
Ms. Solow graduated from the University of Connecticut School of Law in 1995, where she received the American Jurisprudence Award in Property, the Thomas Gallivan, Jr. Memorial Award, and the Irwin Law Merit Scholarship. She was also a grant recipient from the Public Interest Law Group for her work with the Connecticut Women's Education and Legal Fund and represented clients in Social Security Disability hearings while participating in a legal services clinic. Ms. Solow graduated with honors from Union College in Schenectady, New York.
Ms. Solow is a member of the Antitrust Sections of the American Bar Association and the New York State Bar Association, and is a member of the New York Women Antitrust Lawyers Group and the Sedona Working Group on Electronic Document Retention and Production. She was a contributor to the ABA Section of Antitrust Law's Antitrust Law Developments (6th edition, 2007). Ms. Solow is admitted to practice in New York and Connecticut, and before the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.
Some of the principal matters on which Ms. Solow has worked include:
- Discover v. Visa/MasterCard - representing Discover Financial Services, Inc. in its damages lawsuit against Visa and MasterCard.
- Representation of major international air carrier in alleged price-fixing matters
- News America Marketing v. Insignia Systems, Inc. - representing News Corporation in a lawsuit relating to in-store advertising/promotions.
- United States v. Primestar - represented News Corporation in the Department of Justice investigation regarding the sale of certain direct broadcast satellite assets to a consortium of cable companies.
- Liberty Cable v. Time Warner - represented Liberty Cable, a cable company in New York City, in its monopolization suit against Time Warner Cable of New York.
- Supervision of a team of attorneys conducting nation-wide compliance monitoring for a Fortune 250 insurance and risk management corporation in response to government investigations
- Representation of a national magazine distributor in a multi-defendant Robinson-Patman price discrimination lawsuit brought by a wholesaler of magazines against many of the nation's largest magazine distributors.
