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US: Kellyanne Conway’s husband and antitrust attorney headed to DOJ

By  |  March 19, 2017

President Donald Trump has chosen the husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway to head the civil division of the Justice Department, Politico reported.

George Conway was chosen to head the office that has responsibility for defending the administration’s proposed travel ban and defending lawsuits filed against the administration, the newspaper reported.

Conway is a partner at the New York law firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. The law firm’s website says Conway has extensive experience in litigation involving securities, mergers and acquisitions, contracts and antitrust cases. He graduated from Harvard and then Yale Law School. He joined the law firm in 1988, soon after his graduation from law school.

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