University of Texas School of Law, J.D., with high honors, 2013
Articles Editor, Texas Law Review, Volume 91
Member, Supreme Court Clinic
Order of the Coif
Chancellor-at-Large
Rice University, B.A., 2009
Clerkships
Law Clerk, Judge Neil M. Gorsuch, U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit, 2014-2015
Law Clerk, Judge James O. Browning, U.S. District Court, District of New Mexico, 2013-2014
Government Service
Special Counsel to the Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, 2018
Admitted
2014, New York
2016, District of Columbia
Collin White litigates high-stakes cases in trial and appellate courts across the country. Since he joined the firm in 2015, he has represented clients from a wide range of industries in cases about antitrust, intellectual property, securities, telecommunications, and administrative and constitutional law. He also advises clients on antitrust and regulatory matters.
Collin regularly represents both plaintiffs and defendants in antitrust cases. He has represented plaintiffs in a conspiracy case about software for auto dealers, In re Dealer Management Systems Antitrust Litig., MDL No. 2817 (N.D. Ill.), and a landmark monopolization case about spot cable advertising, Viamedia Inc. v. Comcast Corp., No. 16-cv-05486 (N.D. Ill.). He has represented defendants in the Supreme Court’s leading modern Rule of Reason decision, Ohio v. American Express Co., 138 S. Ct. 2274 (2018); a price-discrimination case about a well-known energy shot, U.S. Wholesale Outlet & Distribution, Inc. v. Innovation Ventures, LLC, 89 F.4th 1126 (9th Cir. 2023) (cert. petition filed Apr. 12, 2024); the FTC’s attempt to block Meta’s acquisition of Within, a virtual reality application developer, FTC v. Meta Platforms Inc., No. No. 5:22-cv-04325-EJD (N.D. Cal.); and the FTC’s ongoing monopolization action in FTC v. Meta Platforms, Inc., No. 20-3590 (D.D.C.).
Collin also regularly represents clients in appeals. For example, he has helped secure victories for telecommunications clients (in Greenlining Institute v. FCC, No. 17-73283 (9th Cir. 2020), and Bellsouth Telecommunications LLC v. Cobb County, No. S17G2011 (Ga. 2019)); a software company (in Intellisoft, Ltd. v. Acer Am. Corp., 955 F.3d 927 (Fed. Cir. 2020)); and an individual injured by a medical device (in In re Bard IVC Filters Products Liability Litigation, 969 F.3d 1067 (9th Cir. 2020)).
April 16, 2024— In a case highlighted by Law360’s Petition Watch, Kellogg Hansen client Living Essentials has asked the Supreme Court to clarify what a private plaintiff must prove to win a “secondary line” price discrimination case under the Robinson-Patman Act. At trial, Living Essentials persuaded both a jury and the court to reject claims that it had violated the Act by offering Costco lower prices to buy its popular energy shots, 5-hour ENERGY®, than it had offered to certain wholesalers. The district court explained that the wholesalers could not show they competed with Costco for the same customers, as required by Volvo Trucks North America, Inc. v. Reeder-Simco GMC, Inc., 546 U.S. 164 (2006). But a fractured panel of the Ninth Circuit, breaking from the decisions of other courts of appeals, held Volvo inapplicable. The petition urges the Court to grant review because the decision “invites litigation that will punish the price competition that antitrust law aims to encourage.”
Living Essentials, LLC and its parent company, Innovation Ventures, LLC, are represented by Kellogg Hansen attorneys David C. Frederick, Daniel G. Bird, Collin R. White, and Kyle C. Bailey.
Read more in this report by Law360.
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May 1, 2020— Kellogg Hansen attorneys qualified for recognition on the 2019 Capital Pro Bono Honor Roll for contributing fifty hours or more of pro bono work to those who cannot afford legal counsel. Nine Kellogg Hansen attorneys also qualified for the High Honor Roll for providing one hundred hours or more of pro bono service. The District of Columbia Courts have recognized attorneys through the Capital Pro Bono Honor Roll since 2011. The complete list of 2022 honorees can be found here.
Kellogg Hansen 2019 Capital Pro Bono Honor Roll
Scott K. Attaway
Christine A. Bonomo*
Kimberly A. Briggs*
Andrew J. Churella*
Katherine C. Cooper*
Daniel S. Guarnera*
Michael J. Guzman*
Julia Haines*
Minsuk Han*
T. Dietrich Hill*
Mark P. Hirschboeck*
Bethan R. Jones*
Michael K. Kellogg*
Geoffrey M. Klineberg*
Grace W. Knofczynski
Gabriel A. Kohan
Sean A. Lev
Benjamin D. Margo
Ariela Migdal*
Sean M. Nadel*
Bradley E. Oppenheimer*
Albert Y. Pak
Ana N. Paul*
Michael S. Qin
Gregory G. Rapawy
Melissa Rodriguez*
Thomas B. Samuels*
Thomas G. Schultz*
Benjamin S. Softness
James W. Webster*
Collin R. White
*denotes High Honor roll
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