Mike Keramidas concentrates his practice across a variety of litigation areas. His experience includes antitrust, class actions and appellate matters. Mike joined DLA Piper after completing a clerkship with the Honorable Gene E.K. Pratter in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Before his clerkship, Mike gained extensive experience in antitrust matters. He entered his clerkship after working in the antitrust group at another major law firm. While there, Mike worked on a class action alleging an anticompetitive conspiracy between the brand and generic pharmaceutical companies in settling previous patent litigation. He worked on other pharmaceutical antitrust matters, along with those in real estate, college financial aid and automobile markets.
In law school, Mike worked as a summer and fall intern with the United States Department of Justice, Antitrust Division (San Francisco Office), where he worked on multiple Section 1 and Section 2 Sherman Act matters, predominantly against big tech companies. He also worked as an intern with the North Carolina Department of Justice, Solicitor General's Office, where he assisted with preparing for oral argument on a matter before the United States Supreme Court and worked on an antitrust matter brought by North Carolina and several states against a large technology company.
Mike also maintains an active pro bono practice, largely focusing on election and voting rights matters. For example, at his previous firm, Mike worked on a voting rights matter challenging a state's legislative maps for violating Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and the United States Constitution by improperly diluting Black Mississippians' voting power and containing unconstitutional racial gerrymanders.
