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Jessica M. Rizzo

Associate
Philadelphia

Jessica M. Rizzo is a Litigation associate who focuses her practice on antitrust and competition matters. She has defended clients in antitrust class actions involving allegations of monopolization, algorithmic and traditional price fixing, and unlawful bundling. She has also defended antitrust claims arising out of enforcement of noncompete agreements and enforcement of ethics and professionalism standards. Jessica has experience representing clients in responding to DOJ subpoenas in antitrust matters. She also counsels publicly traded companies on antitrust issues.

Whether representing a company accused of monopolization, an individual CEO confronting fraud charges, or an ordinary teenage girl facing trouble at school, Jessica is a tenacious advocate and empathetic counselor.

Representative Experience 

Representative Matters

  • Defending video game developer and distributor in class action alleging monopolization under the Sherman Act and mass arbitrations alleging related violations
  • Defending multifamily housing operator in antitrust class action alleging price-fixing and information-sharing conspiracies arising from the use of pricing management software
  • Defending publicly traded agriscience company in antitrust class action and related government enforcement action involving allegations of unlawful bundling

Professional Highlights

Pro Bono Experience

Jessica recognizes the importance of access to justice and has represented clients in disputes involving child custody, domestic violence, divorce, quiet title, and landlord-tenant issues. She has advised nonprofit arts organizations on labor issues. She also successfully argued a case before the Commonwealth Court on behalf of the Youth Sentencing and Reentry Project, obtaining a reversal of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections' denial of her client's Right-to-Know Law request.

Professional Activities

Member, metaLAB's Digital Access Research Project, Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society

Board Memberships & Community Service

Advisory Board, Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts

Board of Directors, Wilma Theater, former Member

Publications

“Non-Fungible Token Litigation: The Early Years,” 30.1 Boston University Journal of Science and Technology Law, 2025

“Theft of the Commons: On David Bellos and Alexandre Montagu’s ‘Who Owns This Sentence?’,” Los Angeles Review of Books, 2024

“Towards a Dramaturgical Theory of Constitutional Interpretation,” 45.4 Seattle University Law Review, 2023

Credentials 

Education

University of Pennsylvania Law School (J.D. 2021)

Yale School of Drama (D.F.A. 2017; M.F.A. 2014)

Bryn Mawr College (B.A. 2011)

Admissions

Pennsylvania

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit