Policy · Competition & Consumer Law
US antitrust compliance policy
Company policy built around Sherman Act section 1 as opened, including the felony penalty. Company rules on prices, output, customers, markets and bids are labelled as company rules, not as case holdings.
- Kind
- Policy. A policy or procedure for a firm or client.
- Where it applies
- United States
- AI use
- Yellow You and the tool draft together, with you directing. You check every statement you rely on.
- Law stated as at
- 22 October 2026
- Status
- Maintained. Checked on 22 October 2026 against the authority it cites, for United States.
- Version
- 1
- Source
- Written for this library
When to use it
Use when a company wants a written rule for personnel who deal with competitors. Do not use it to decide whether an agreement restrains trade, or to clear a collaboration.
Used for these tasks
- Screen an agreement for cartel or competitor-collaboration risk
- Build an information-exchange and concerted-practices screen
- Compare a collaboration or JV paper with the no-poach and information-sharing rules
Each task page says how far AI may help with the task and what the lawyer must review.
How AI may be used
Yellow: the lawyer adopts the company rules and makes any judgement about a particular arrangement.
AI may
- Quote section 1 and the penalty that was read.
- State company rules against agreeing prices, output, customers, markets or bids with a competitor.
- Send any competitor contact to the lawyer before it happens, where the company wants that control.
AI must not
- Do not decide that an arrangement is a contract, combination or conspiracy in restraint of trade.
- Do not label any category as per se unlawful. No case was opened for that label.
- Do not write a collaboration opinion or a no-poach analysis.
- Do not describe monopolisation. Section 2 was not opened.
The lawyer checks
- Read section 1 against the arrangement. The policy does not do that reading.
- Decide which competitor contacts need advance clearance.
- If a deal needs a clean team, use the separate protocol and do not treat this policy as that protocol.
Method: how the Green, Yellow and Red levels are decided. This is guidance for planning, not legal advice.
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