Lucy S. Clippinger is a partner at Baker & Miller PLLC. Her practice focuses on litigating complex cases in federal courts in the areas of antitrust and the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, and on antitrust compliance counseling. She also represents entities and individuals in competition and regulatory matters before federal and state agencies.
Lucy has substantial experience representing companies and cooperatives involved in antitrust litigation, including antitrust class actions. She has coauthored amicus briefs related to complex questions of competition law in cases before the Supreme Court of the United States and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Lucy also regularly performs competition compliance work for clients, including related to industry-specific exemptions such as the Capper-Volstead Act.
In addition to antitrust, Lucy regularly litigates cases related to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act. She has represented the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the Commonwealth of Australia in litigation in U.S. courts.
During her years of practice, Lucy has represented clients in the following industries:
- Agriculture
- Pulp and Paper
- Residential Real Estate
- Public Affairs
- Natural Gas & Electricity
- Outdoor Power Equipment
- Insurance
- News Media
- Higher Education
- Precision Machining
She also has experience representing trade associations.
Lucy has authored numerous published articles and given multiple presentations and webinars on a variety of competition-related topics. She currently serves as a member of the Legal, Tax and Accounting Committee of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives and serves as a Vice Chair of that group’s Antitrust Subcommittee. Lucy has been named to the Super Lawyers District of Columbia Rising Stars lists each year from 2017 to 2024.
Lucy received her J.D., magna cum laude, from Cornell Law School, where she became a member of the Order of the Coif and received the Frederic H. Weisberg Prize for Constitutional Law. While in law school, Lucy was an Equal Justice America Fellowship Recipient and interned for the Rural Law Center of New York. She received her B.A., magna cum laude, from Bard College at Simon’s Rock. She is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and New York. She is also admitted to practice before the United States Courts of Appeals for the Second and Fourth Circuits, and the United States District Courts for the Eastern, Northern, Southern, and Western Districts of New York.
