Law, disrupted
Law, disrupted
Law, disrupted
The Antitrust Lawyer Who Parachuted Into Trial and Beat Live Nation and Ticketmaster for 33 States
32 minutes Posted May 28, 2026 at 10:00 pm.
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John is joined by Jeffrey L. Kessler, Co-Executive Chairman of Winston & Strawn LLP. They discuss the remarkable antitrust trial Jeff won involving Live Nation and Ticketmaster. In that case, the Department of Justice, 33 states, and the District of Columbia sued Live Nation and Ticketmaster, only for the DOJ to settle and withdraw from the case one week into the trial. The remaining states continued litigating and brought in Jeff as their new lead trial lawyer midway through the proceedi...