Antitrust Law Daily Wrap Up, INDUSTRY NEWS: Richard Brunell returns to American Antitrust Institute as general counsel, (Oct 9, 2013)

After a year serving as a senior advisor for competition matters at the FTC, Richard Brunell has returned to the American Antitrust Institute (AAI) as General Counsel, according to a recent announcement. As the AAI’s first General Counsel, Brunell will direct the organization’s outside legal activities, including its amicus program.

Brunell joined the AAI in 2007 as the director of legal advocacy. He headed up the AAI’s Amicus Program, which gained wide recognition under his direction, including the distinction of having Brunell selected to argue as amicus curiae in the Supreme Court.

At the FTC, Brunell participated in the FTC’s successful Supreme Court appeal in the Actavis pay-for-delay case, drafted the FTC’s Federal Circuit amicus brief in Apple v. Motorola involving injunctions and standard essential patents, and advised the commission on numerous other appellate and non-appellate matters.

Before joining the AAI, Brunell practiced in the litigation department at Foley Hoag LLP, at the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office, and at the Department of Justice Antitrust Division.

He is the author of numerous antitrust articles and book chapters and has testified before Congress and the FTC. Brunell is a graduate of Swarthmore College and the Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. He has taught as an adjunct and visiting professor at Boston University School of Law and Boston College Law School.

The American Antitrust Institute is an independent, Washington-based non-profit education, research, and advocacy organization. Its stated mission is to increase the role of competition, assure that competition works in the interests of consumers, and challenge abuses of concentrated economic power in the American and world economy.

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