Michelle Looby

Michelle Looby is a member of Gustafson Gluek PLLC. She Co-Chairs the firm’s antitrust group and has served in leadership roles in numerous class actions. 

Michelle Looby has represented plaintiffs in class actions across the country for more than a decade. Michelle is admitted to the Minnesota Bar and is admitted to practice in the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota and the United State District Court for the District of North Dakota. 

In the courtroom, Michelle has served in leadership roles in numerous class actions and is Co-Chair of the firm’s antitrust group. Outside the courtroom, Michelle is actively involved in the legal community serving on the Advisory Board of the American Antitrust Institute, as the Chair and Diversity and Inclusion Liaison for the Minnesota State Bar Association’s Antitrust Section, and on the executive committee of the Coalition in Support of the Antitrust Laws.  In addition, she is actively involved in the American Bar Association, Federal Bar Association, and Minnesota Women Lawyers, previously having served on its Board of Directors.   Michelle also served on Law360’s Competition Editorial Advisory Board, a leading daily legal news and intelligence service that reaches over one million recipients each day.

Michelle co-authored the “Plaintiff Overview” chapter of Getting the Deal Through: Private Antitrust Litigation 2015, and has presented at CLEs and conferences on the topic of antitrust law. 

In 2015, Michelle received the American Antitrust Institute’s award for Outstanding Antitrust Litigation Achievement by a Young Lawyer.  She has been designated as a “Rising Star” each year from 2014 through 2020, as a “Super Lawyer” in 2021 by Super Lawyers and was selected as one of Minnesota Lawyer’s Attorneys of the Year in 2022.

During law school, Michelle was a member of the William Mitchell Law Review from 2005-2007, serving as Assistant Editor in 2006-2007.  She served as a judicial intern to the Honorable Faye Flancher and the Honorable Emily Mueller, Circuit Court Judges, Racine County Circuit Court of Wisconsin.  She also served as a judicial extern to the Honorable David Higgs, District Judge, Second Judicial District of Minnesota.  In addition, Michelle was a five-time recipient of the CALI Excellence for the Future Award, recognizing the student with the highest grade in the class as determined by the instructor or registrar.

For more information regarding Michelle and a list of her representative cases, see below.

More About Michelle

    • William Mitchell College of Law - J.D., magna cum laude (2007)

    • University of Minnesota - B.A., with distinction (2004)

    • Minnesota State Bar

    • U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

    • U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota

    • Selected as a Minnesota Super Lawyer by Super Lawyers (2021)

    • Selected as a Minnesota Rising Star by Super Lawyers (2014 – 2020)

    • Selected as a Minnesota Attorney of the Year by Minnesota Lawyer (2022)

    • Recipient of the American Antitrust Institute’s award for Outstanding Antitrust Litigation Achievement by a Young Lawyer (2015)

  • Michelle is currently serving in leadership roles in a number of class actions. For example, she is serving as Co-Lead Counsel in In re Cattle and Beef Antitrust Litig. (D. Minn.), where she represents a class of direct purchasers of beef alleging defendants engaged in an anticompetitive scheme to artificially reduce supply and inflate the price of boxed beef.

    She is also serving on the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee in In re Dealer Management Systems Antitrust Litig. (N.D. Ill.), representing a proposed class of auto dealerships alleging the two leading providers of dealer management systems engaged in anticompetitive conduct to the detriment of auto dealerships across the nation.

    Michelle also played an integral role in Precision Associates, Inc. et al. v. Panalpina World Transport (Holding), Ltd., et al. (E.D.N.Y.), a case in which Gustafson Gluek served as Co-Lead counsel, representing a class of businesses and consumers who paid supracompetitive prices for freight forwarding services as a result of 11 separate conspiracies executed by 68 defendants in an antitrust class action - ultimately recovering over $450 million for the class.

    Other Representative Cases

    • In re Crop Inputs (E.D. Missouri) (Co-Lead Counsel)

    • Interior Molded Doors Antitrust Litig. (E.D.V.A.) (Co-Lead Counsel – Indirect Purchasers)

    • Powell Prescription Center, et al. v. Surescripts, LLC et al. (N.D. Ill.) (Lead Counsel Committee)

    • In re CenturyLink Residential Customer Billing Disputes Litig. (D. Minn.) (Executive Committee Co-Chair)

    • In re Allura Fiber Cement Siding Products Liability Litig. (D.S.C.) (Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee)

    • In re Broiler Chicken Antitrust Litig. (N.D. Ill.) (Co-Lead Counsel – Commercial & Institutional Indirect Purchasers)

    • In re Pork Antitrust Litig. (D. Minn.) (Co-Lead Counsel – Consumer Indirect Purchasers)

    • In re Generic Pharmaceuticals Pricing Antitrust Litig. (E.D. Pa.)

    • In re Automotive Parts Antitrust Litig. (E.D. Mich.)

    • In re Opana ER Antitrust Litig. (N.D. Ill.)

    • In re Restatsis (Cyclosporine Opthalmic Emulsion) Antitrust Litig. (E.D.N.Y)

    • In re Asacol Antitrust Litig. (D. Mass.)

    • In re Celebrex (Celecoxib) Antitrust Litig. (E.D. Va.)