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  ANTITRUST DIVISION NAMES NEW DEPUTY ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL

                                 
     WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Antitrust Division of the Department
of Justice today named Lawrence R. Fullerton of Fairfax, Virginia
as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Merger Enforcement. 
Fullerton had served as the Division's Chief of Staff since
February 1995.
     Fullerton will head the Division's review of mergers and
acquisitions in the midst of considerable new merger activism.
     "We are extremely lucky to have Larry in this position
during the current merger wave.  He brings a wealth of antitrust
experience both from his work here at the Division and from
private law practice to this critically important position," said
Anne K. Bingaman, Assistant Attorney General in charge of the
Antitrust Division.
     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 practice before the
Justice Department, the Federal Trade Commission, a variety of 
other Executive Branch agencies and Congress.
     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.
     In the merger deputy position, Fullerton succeeds Stephen C.
Sunshine, who has returned to private practice in Washington,
D.C.
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