Keagan H. Potts
Associate
Keagan is, fundamentally, an educator who advocates for his clients with candor and expertise. He quickly understands and clearly communicates his clients’ needs in a range of dispute resolution forums. Keagan specializes in antitrust and commercial litigation arising in the financial services, energy, healthcare, security, and pharmaceutical industries. He has worked on matters at various stages of litigation including pleadings, discovery, pre- and post-trial motions, appeals, and settlement negotiations. Prior to joining SCL, Keagan served as a law clerk in the United States Court of Federal Claims, where he sharpened his legal research and writing skills on a range of matters involving government action, investigations, and litigation.
Keagan graduated from the University of Michigan Law School. In law school, Keagan served as a Senior Editor of the Michigan Law Review, a graduate student instructor for cognitive science courses, and a student attorney in the Human Trafficking Clinic. Prior to law school, he obtained a master’s degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University, where he specialized in theoretical and practical ethics and taught courses on philosophy of law, biomedical ethics, and just war theory.
Bar Admissions
District of Columbia
United States Court of Federal Claims
Education
University of Michigan Law School, J.D. (2021)
Western Michigan University, M.A. (2018)
Loyola University Chicago, B.A. (2016)
Capital Pro Bono Honor Roll, High Honors (2022)
Outstanding scholarly contribution, awarded by each journal to the best student note (2021)
Essay prize in Ethics (2018)
Law Clerk in the United States Court of Federal Claims (2022-2024)
Judicial Intern in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas (Summer 2019)
Professional Associations
Committee to Support the Antitrust Laws (Rules Committee)
Associate Editor, ABA Antitrust Media & Technology
Bulletin
“A Solution to the Hard Problem of Soft Law,” Michigan Journal of Environmental & Administrative Law, vol. 10, no. 2 (Spring 2021)
“Possible Reliance: Protecting Legally Innocent Johnson Claimants,” Michigan Law Review, vol. 119, no. 2 (2020).
“Medical Immunity, International Law and Just War Theory,” Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, vol. 165, no. 4 (August 2019) (with Fritz Allhoff)
“Restricting Police Immunity,” Public Affairs Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 4 (October 2018)
“The Healthcare Industry is Likely Target for FTC and DOJ Review of Anti-Competitive Regulations” (with James Kovacs)
“The Time Has Come to Regulate State Aid in the U.S.” (with Ethan Litwin)
“Google’s DoubleClick Acquisition: A Case Study Highlighting the Conglomerate Merger Blind Spot in U.S. Antitrust Enforcement” (with Ethan Litwin)
“Antitrust Enforcement and President Trump’s AI Action Plan” (with Ethan Litwin)
“Turbulence Ahead: How Two Antitrust Theories Could Bear on the Airline Industry“
“Anti-ESG Sentiment Spurs States to Test Horizontal Shareholding Antitrust Theory“


