Overview
Anna Sallstrom is a litigator focused on protecting clients’ trade secrets, guiding them through antitrust disputes and providing practical, business-focused advice.
Trade Secrets
Anna helps businesses protect their valuable trade secrets. She proactively advises clients on their trade-secret protection policies, investigates potential trade-secret theft, and protects trade secrets through litigation. As a former computer programmer, she brings a deep interest in technology to her work and a valuable perspective to to cases involving software or other technical trade secrets.
Anna has obtained favorable results for clients in both litigation and arbitration, including as part of the trial team that won a multimillion-dollar jury verdict in favor of a Fortune 100 company on claims of tortious interference with contracts protecting trade secrets and confidential information.
Antitrust
Anna represents clients in antitrust litigation, including investigations and enforcement actions by the Department of Justice (DOJ), Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and state attorneys general, as well as private antitrust actions. She has helped clients secure merger clearance from federal regulators and favorable results in antitrust investigations.
Anna also provides practical and business-focused advice to help clients manage antitrust risk. She counsels clients on issues related to pricing, distribution and other topics, and has experience advising trade associations.
In her antitrust work, Anna draws on her prior experience as a trial attorney with the DOJ’s Antitrust Division, where she litigated merger challenges, led merger reviews, and conducted antitrust investigations.
She is currently the vice-chair of the Minnesota State Bar Association’s Antitrust Section Council and speaks regularly on antitrust developments.
Prior Experience
In addition to her experience at the Antitrust Division, Anna is a former Federal Circuit law clerk. She graduated from Stanford Law School, where she served as editor-in-chief of the Stanford Technology Law Review.
Personal Interests
In her free time, Anna enjoys playing board games with her husband and creating craft projects with her two young children.
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Credentials
Bar Admissions
California
Minnesota
Court Admissions
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Clerkships
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Hon. Raymond C. Clevenger III, 2014-2015
Education
Stanford Law School
J.D. Stanford Technology Law Review (editor in chief), Pro Bono Distinction (2014)
Carleton College
B.A. in Computer Science, magna cum laude, with distinction in major, Phi Beta Kappa (2009)
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Firm Blog Contributions
- LaborSphere – a resource providing coverage and insights on breaking cases, recently enacted legislation and a broad range of labor issues
Leadership & Community
Professional Associations
- Minnesota State Bar Association Antitrust Section Council
Honors
- Best Lawyers® — "Ones to Watch," Mergers and Acquisitions Law, 2024-25
No aspect of these recognitions has been approved by the highest court of any state.