Tipton, James S.

Montgomery Kosma is an antitrust lawyer whose practice emphasizes mergers and acquisitions in addition to criminal and civil antitrust litigation. He has extensive experience relating to telecommunications, computer hardware, software, and consumer products. Monty has spearheaded efforts to maximize efficiencies in the Firm's handling of second requests and other substantial electronic discovery projects through the application of advanced software technologies and project management techniques. Along with antitrust, he has worked in related areas of governmental regulation, including electronic surveillance, privacy, the regulation of encryption, and false advertising. As lead counsel, he successfully won dismissal of a civil RICO and Sherman Act complaint filed against the Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment. He also served as lead appellate counsel for defendants in CFTC v. R.J. Fitzgerald & Co., a regulatory case involving an allegedly misleading television commercial.

Before joining Jones Day, Monty was an associate in the antitrust and appellate practice groups at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. He founded The Green Bag: An Entertaining Journal of Law and continues to serve as its executive editor. His published articles include ""Policing the Dormant Commerce Clause,"" Icarus 64 (ABA Antitrust Section, Summer/Fall 2003); ""Our First Real War,"" 2 Green Bag 2d 169 (Winter 1999) (executive war powers in the 1801 war with Tripoli); and ""Measuring the Influence of Supreme Court Justices,"" 27 J. Legal Studies 333 (June 1998). Before attending law school, Monty designed supercomputer software for stealth aircraft design at Lockheed. He also served as vice president of a human resources consulting firm in Kansas City and as a software engineer responsible for designing several Microsoft Windows applications.

Monty is chairman of the Federalist Society's Antitrust Subcommittee, a member of the American Bar Association (Antitrust Law Section, Computer Industry & Internet Committee), and a member of Jones Day's e-Discovery Committee.