Justice Taps Antitrust Trial Lawyers After Pledging Court Action

The Justice Department is ramping up its hiring of antitrust trial lawyers as the Biden administration moves to deliver on its promise to take alleged competition violators to court.

The antitrust division is filling “many vacancies” in San Francisco, Washington, New York and Chicago, according to a federal jobs site. It seeks “experienced first-chair and second-chair trial lawyers to take leadership roles on high-profile antitrust and competition cases,” the USAJOBS.gov post says.

The division has already tapped two plaintiffs’ attorneys with decades of experience in suing companies—Bonny Sweeney, an antitrust litigator of more than 20 years at Hausfeld in San ...