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ANTITRUST DIVISION NAMES SPECIAL COUNSEL


FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY





	WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Joel I. Klein, Assistant Attorney
General in charge of the Antitrust Division, announced today that
he has appointed Jeff Blattner as his Special Counsel for
Information Technology.  "Jeff will coordinate the Division's
overall policy for the computer and information industries,
including its enforcement efforts in these important areas.  He
is a valuable addition to my team," Klein said. 

	Blattner, 43, is a summa cum laude graduate of the
University of Pennsylvania, and a magna cum laude graduate of
Harvard Law School.  He has served as law clerk to a federal
district court judge and to the late Associate U.S. Supreme Court
Justice Potter Stewart, as an attorney in private practice in
Washington, D.C., and as Chief Counsel on the Senate Judiciary
Committee staff of Senator Edward M. Kennedy. He most recently
served as president of a real estate business started by his late
father. He will also be an adjunct professor of legislation at
Georgetown University Law School this fall.

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