Shuford, Thomas "Marty"

Hugh Hollman's practice is primarily concentrated in antitrust and related areas of government regulation and includes litigation, counseling, and agency practice before state and federal courts and antitrust enforcement agencies. Hugh has worked on antitrust matters for clients in the energy, technology, telecommunications, health care, and retail products sectors. Representative clients in recent public matters include Bayer, Chevron, SABMiller, Federated Department Stores, and Sprint Nextel.

Hugh is currently an editor of The Antitrust Source. He is also a vice chair of the Public Education and Oral History Committee of the American Bar Association's Section of Antitrust Law and is actively involved in the oral history project. He is a member of the International Bar Association's Antitrust Committee and coauthored an article with Kathryn Fenton in the IBA's Competition Law International journal: "US Supreme Court to Address Price Squeeze Issues" (February 2009). He also coauthored an article on U.S. merger process reform with Joe Sims and Robert Jones in the Spring 2009 edition of the ABA's Antitrust magazine.

Hugh was a co-recipient of the 2007 Frederick Douglass Human Rights Award for a Supreme Court amicus brief in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld on behalf of the Yemeni National Organization for Defending Rights and Freedoms. Other pro bono activities include an amicus brief in Padilla v. Hanft and the representation and grant of asylum for a young woman and her infant daughter fleeing prosecution in Guinea, West Africa. He was admitted to the Cape Bar, South Africa as an advocate/barrister in 1999, before pursuing advanced studies in law at Duke University. Following the completion of his master of laws in 2000, Hugh accepted an internship at the World Bank. Before returning to Duke University to complete a J.D. in two years, he was an associate in an established international law firm's financial services practice in Washington, D.C., where he concentrated on investment management products and practiced in the area of securities and futures laws affecting those products. He also worked with hedge funds, private U.S. funds, retail and private offshore funds, and private and offshore variable insurance products.