Anthony P. Ferrara
Anthony Ferrara is an Associate at Wilkinson Stekloff. Before joining the firm, Anthony was a law clerk for Judge R. Lanier Anderson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and Judge Sanket J. Bulsara of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Prior to his clerkships, Anthony was an associate at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius in New York, where he represented corporate clients in government investigations and complex commercial litigation. Anthony maintains an active pro bono practice and has been recognized for his service on the D.C. Court of Appeals’ Capital Pro Bono Honor Roll.
Anthony graduated from the University of North Carolina School of Law, where he served as Executive Comments Editor of the North Carolina Law Review and was a member of the Broun National Trial Team. During law school, he also interned at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina and for the Honorable Joanna Seybert of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
Education
- Undergraduate: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, B.A. with distinction (2015)
- Law: University of North Carolina School of Law, J.D. with High Honors (2018)
Clerkship
- Judge R. Lanier Anderson III, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (2020–21)
- Magistrate Judge Sanket J. Bulsara, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York (2019-20)
Notable Matters
- Member of the trial team that secured a groundbreaking victory for Microsoft, defeating the FTC’s efforts to enjoin its $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard and winning the second-biggest merger trial in American history. Following a five-day bench trial, Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley denied the FTC’s motion for preliminary injunction, finding that the FTC failed to make its case that the acquisition would substantially lessen competition in the gaming industry. The deal closed shortly thereafter.
- Member of the trial team for Monsanto in Frank v. Monsanto, the first hybrid trial involving claims that exposure to PCBs and Roundup-branded products, both manufactured by Monsanto, caused the plaintiff’s Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma.
- Member of the team representing plaintiffs in a federal case challenging Arizona laws that would prohibit abortion care if there is an indication of fetal diagnosis in the patient’s reason and grant new “personhood” rights for fetuses, embryos, and fertilized eggs. The district court granted a preliminary injunction enjoining the “personhood” law from being used to prohibit abortion care in Arizona.