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Microsoft Lawyer To Lead ABA's Antitrust Section

Posted by timothy on from the takes-one-to-know-one dept.

Dan writes "Wired is reporting that a top lawyer from Microsoft will take over later this year as chairman of the American Bar Association's antitrust section. The panel is organizing opposition to a congressional plan that would require more aggressive oversight by the courts of such antitrust settlements. Considering the next major ruling in MS's case is due soon, you can figure out how important this is to MS."

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  1. This isn't really a big deal by n8ur · · Score: 5, Informative

    This appointment doesn't have any real significance. The ABA is not a government agency; it's a private lawyer's organization that is voluntary (lots and lots of lawyers don't belong).

    The ABA has a lot of different subgroups, on anti-trust, patent law, corporate law, etc. They do training on their areas of specialty, have meetings to talk about their area of interest, and do sometimes lobby about pending legislation.

    The ABA Antitrust section has been pro-business, anti-enforcement forever, so this is really no big deal.