Big Law Stands to Bill Big in Tech Antitrust Probe

A looming government antitrust probe is Silicon Valley’s biggest nightmare—and a massive win for big law firms.

Big tech’s most well-known names are bracing for potentially simultaneous multi-year antitrust battles with the government that risk the companies’ existence.

There aren’t that many law firms with the highest caliber antitrust practices—and those that do could soon be billing seven figures a month.

“This is what they dream of, these big resource intensive matters,” Douglas Melamed, a former Justice Department antitrust official, said.

The Justice Department is set to investigate Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc.'s Google, while the Federal Trade Commission will ...