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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1995                         (202) 616-2771
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             ANTITRUST DIVISION NAMES CHIEF OF STAFF

     WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Department of Justice's Antitrust
Division today named Lawrence R. Fullerton of Fairfax, Virginia,
as the Division's Chief of Staff.
     Fullerton, 43, will be the first person to hold this
position in the Division.
     Anne K. Bingaman, Assistant Attorney General in charge of
the Antitrust Division, said Fullerton will assist her and the
Division's deputies in managing the Division's expanding caseload
and public policy activities.
     "We are extremely lucky to have Larry join the Division.  He
brings a wealth of antitrust and other experience from private
law practice and his work on the Hill to this critically
important position."
     Before joining the Division, Fullerton was a partner in the
Washington, D.C., office of Powell, Goldstein, Frazer and Murphy,
where he had an antitrust and regulatory, legislative and
counseling practice before Congress and a variety of Executive
Branch agencies.  Bingaman was a former partner and head of the
D.C. Litigation Department at Powell, Goldstein, Frazer and
Murphy.
     Fullerton received his J.D. and M.A. degrees from the
University of Virginia in 1978, and his B.A. from Princeton
University in 1974.  He served as Senior Counsel on the
Republican Staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce,
Science, and Transportation from 1981 to 1985.  He has been a
lecturer at the University of Virginia School of Law, Cornell Law
School, and Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of
Public and International Affairs.
     Fullerton also has been active in bar association
activities.  He currently serves on the Council of the American
Bar Association's Section of Antitrust Law.  From 1991 to 1994,
he was chairman of the Section's Federal Trade Commission
Committee.  He writes and speaks frequently on topics related to
antitrust, consumer protection and regulation of foreign
investment in the United States.
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