Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz has appointed Willard Tom as general counsel for the agency. In addition, several other appointments have been made to senior positions in the agency’s Competition and Economics Bureaus and the Office of Congressional Relations.
Tom, who has been practicing antitrust law as a partner in Morgan Lewis’s Washington, D.C. office, is rejoining the Commission, where he was deputy director of the Bureau of Competition and led the Bureau’s policy office under former Chairman Robert Pitofsky. He previously served as counselor to the head of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, responsible for intellectual property, vertical restraints, and telecommunications matters. As the Commission’s chief legal officer and adviser, the general counsel represents the agency in court and provides legal counsel to the Commission and its bureaus and office.
