Document Type
Press Release
Publication Date
2-6-2012
Abstract
A member of the Lawrence University Board of Trustees is among several individuals President Barack Obama has announced as nominees to key administration posts.
Bill Baer, a member of Lawrence’s Board of Trustees since 2001, has been nominated for Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice.
A 1972 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Lawrence, Baer is the chair of the Antitrust Practice Group at Arnold & Porter LLP in Washington, D.C. He joined the firm in 1980 and was named a partner in 1983.
In his practice, Baer represents a broad range of companies in U.S. and international cartel investigations, mergers and acquisition reviews and in antitrust litigation. He began his legal career in 1975 as a trial attorney for the Bureau of Consumer Protection at the Federal Trade Commission and later spent four years (1995-1999) as the FTC’s director for the Bureau of Competition.
After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in government from Lawrence, Baer earned a law degree from Stanford Law School.
Recommended Citation
Lawrence University, "Lawrence Trustee Nominated by President Obama to Department of Justice Post" (2012). Press Releases. 167.
https://lux.lawrence.edu/pressreleases/167