Global Enforcement & Compliance Program, Part 3

Global Enforcement & Compliance Series


The U.S. Department of Justice published Daniel Glad's remarks and are available HERE.


Old Crimes, New code: AI-Enabled Collusion and How AI Is Reshaping White Collar Exposure


The WWCDA Q3 Global Programs luncheon opened with remarks from Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Daniel W. Glad, the senior DOJ official responsible for all criminal antitrust enforcement in the United States, drawn from his recent public speech on algorithmic price-fixing and the Division's enforcement posture in the age of AI. DAAG Glad addressed criminal antitrust enforcement of algorithmic collusion and conduct involving AI-enabled collusion by code and what it means for counsel and companies when the hub of a pricing arrangement is a large language model.

Following his remarks, moderator Alexis Loeb led a practitioner panel examining AI-enabled criminal and regulatory exposure across the white-collar landscape — ranging from antitrust to insider threats to targeted intrusion activity. Panelists Molly Kelley and Megan Gerking—each a former federal prosecutor with DOJ antitrust and white-collar experience — brought a defense-side perspective to the evolving enforcement environment, working through a timely hypothetical designed to surface the practical questions companies and their counsel face when AI tools sit at the center of a potential investigation. Then, panelists Prava Palacharla and Veronica Glick — each with a cybersecurity and national security background— addressed how AI is used to enhance  criminal activity in white collar and national security landscapes. Topics ranged from insider threats posed by AI agents to the risks involved with using AI to capture sensitive or proprietary information  to how sharpened social engineering and the use of mass-scale mapping and rapid code-to-exploit deployment focuses and accelerates intrusion activity. 

Date: Tuesday, September 22, 2026

Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CT Panel Discussion Followed by Networking Luncheon

Location: Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila,1 S Dearborn Street Ste 2200, Chicago IL 


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The U.S. Department of Justice published Daniel Glad's remarks and are available HERE.

Daniel W. Glad

Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Criminal Enforcement, U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division

Daniel Glad is the Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Criminal Enforcement.  Previously at the Antitrust Division, Mr. Glad was the Director of the Procurement Collusion Strike Force, Acting Director of Criminal Enforcement, and the Acting Chief of the New York Office.  Mr. Glad began his federal career as a line prosecutor and later Assistant Chief in the Antitrust Division’s Chicago office, where he investigated and prosecuted international and domestic cartels, criminal conspiracies that target public agencies, bid rigging, price fixing, bribery, and other related federal crimes.  He also worked in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois, where he investigated and prosecuted a variety of federal offenses, including complex fraud schemes, bank robbery, embezzlement, money laundering, child exploitation, narcotics and firearms offenses, and violent crimes.  Prior to joining the Department of Justice, Mr. Glad was Assistant Inspector General for the City of Chicago.  He began his career in private practice in the Chicago and Washington, D.C. offices of a large, international law firm.  Mr. Glad is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School.

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Panelists

Gerking

Megan Gerking

Partner, Morrison & Foerster

Megan Gerking is a partner in Morrison & Foerster's Antitrust Group in Washington, D.C. and a former trial attorney in the DOJ Antitrust Division's Washington Criminal I section. Her practice focuses on government investigations, merger reviews, and civil antitrust litigation, where enforcement, compliance, and global antitrust and regulatory risk intersect. That firsthand DOJ experience gives her a unique perspective on how enforcers think, which she now brings to clients navigating global antitrust risk.

Kelley

Molly Kelley

Partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Molly Kelley is a litigation partner concentrating in white-collar criminal investigations and all areas of civil and criminal antitrust. She represents clients in a broad array of industries, including technology, medical device, pharmaceutical, automotive, manufacturing, distribution and consumer goods.
 
Prior to joining Kirkland, Molly served for over seven years as a federal prosecutor in the U.S. Department of Justice, both at the Antitrust Division and at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Indiana. While a federal prosecutor, Molly investigated and acted as trial counsel in a variety of criminal cases, including jury trials. She has experience prosecuting criminal antitrust conspiracies involving procurement fraud, price fixing, bid rigging, and market allocation in national and international industries.
 
Before her government service, Molly worked at a global law firm assisting multinational clients with antitrust investigations, compliance audits, counseling and litigation.

Prava Palacharla

Partner, Ashurst Perkins Coie

Prava Palacharla is a partner in Ashurst Perkins Coie’s Complex Litigation practice within the Litigation, Investigations & Advisory division. Drawing on her government background, Prava provides counsel to clients navigating cybersecurity and national security issues such as material cybersecurity incidents and insider threats, as well as sanctions and export control compliance.

Before joining Ashurst Perkins Coie, Prava served as a trial attorney in the National Security Cyber Section of the U.S. Department of Justice's National Security Division (NSD), where she collaborated with global law enforcement agencies, the intelligence community, financial institutions, and private-sector entities to lead complex, cybersecurity prosecutions. She also participated in working groups that addressed the legal and national security implications of emerging technologies such as AI and quantum computing.

Before her role at NSD, Prava served as a Senior Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, where she managed a portfolio of cybersecurity, national security, and white-collar crime matters involving wire fraud, computer fraud, international financial crime, economic espionage, export controls, and sanctions evasion. 

At the DOJ, Prava worked regularly with the U.S. Departments of State, Commerce, the Treasury, Energy, and Homeland Security. She maintained an active security clearance from 2022 to 2026. Prior to the DOJ, Prava worked for the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office as a local prosecutor in Chicago.

Veronica Glick

Partner, Mayer Brown LLP
 
Veronica Glick is a partner in Mayer Brown LLP’s National Security and Cybersecurity practices, where she advises global institutions on responding to cyber-attacks and the use of artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. 
 
Previously, Veronica served as a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow in the Office of US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and the US Department of State's Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy, where she represented the State Department at the White House National Security Council's response group for global cyber incidents. Additionally, Veronica has served as deputy chief counsel to the bipartisan US Cyberspace Solarium Commission and as a member of a United Nations Experts Committee on countering terrorism through information and communications technologies. 
 
Veronica serves on the board of directors of the Greater Chicago Legal Clinic, an organization dedicated to providing affordable, high-quality legal services to our Chicagoland neighbors in need, and as an advisor to Pirth.org, a non-profit dedicated to supporting online safety, especially for high-risk communities. 

Moderator

Loeb

Alexis Loeb

Partner, Farella Braun + Martel LLP

Alexis Loeb is a partner at Farella Braun + Martel’s San Francisco office. As a trial lawyer, experienced investigator, and former federal prosecutor, she specializes in white-collar defense, government and internal investigations, antitrust matters, and complex civil litigation.  Before joining Farella, Alexis worked as a trial attorney in the Antitrust and Criminal Divisions of the U.S. Department of Justice, serving in both San Francisco and Washington, D.C., where she prosecuted bid rigging, price fixing, money laundering, and international corruption cases.  She also held positions in the U.S. Attorney’s Offices for the Northern District of California and the District of Columbia, where she was involved in some of the DOJ’s most high-profile cases as both a line attorney and a supervisor.  Since joining Farella in 2024, Alexis’s experience includes representing both companies and individuals in DOJ and SEC investigations, litigating civil and criminal antitrust matters, and serving as co-lead counsel in a jury trial on behalf of a Fortune 50 company.



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