Charles F. (Rick) Rule
Charles F. (Rick) Rule is a partner resident in Fried Frank's
Washington, DC and New York offices and head of the firm's antitrust
practice. He joined the firm in 2001.
Mr. Rule's practice focuses on providing U.S. and international
antitrust advice to a variety of high-profile corporations, counseling,
structuring joint ventures (including business-to-business exchanges)
and representing major corporations in connection with investigations
by the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission
and the European Commission.
Mr. Rule has represented clients such as Eli Lilly & Company,
Microsoft Corporation, US Airways Inc., WorldCom, Inc., the National
Basketball Association, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., and Air
Products and Chemicals, Inc. He has also been involved in the
antitrust clearance of some of the highest-profile mergers in
recent years, including advising NYNEX in its merger with Bell
Atlantic (now known as Verizon Communications) and serving as
Exxon's lead counsel in its successful merger with Mobil Oil Corporation
(now known as ExxonMobil Corporation).
Mr. Rule served as William Baxter's special assistant, in 1982,
in the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice. He served
as acting head of the Division for almost half of 1985 and was
appointed to the job permanently in late 1986, becoming the youngest
person ever to be confirmed to the position of Assistant Attorney
General in charge of the Antitrust Division. Mr. Rule continued
as the Assistant Attorney General through the remainder of the
Reagan Administration and for the first several months of the
George Bush, Sr. Administration. He received the Edmund J. Randolph
Award from the Department of Justice in 1988. Following his departure
from the Justice Department in 1989, Mr. Rule was a partner and
head of the antitrust practice at the Washington, DC law firm
of Covington & Burling.
Mr. Rule has served as a distinguished adjunct professor of law
at American University's Washington College of Law. He was the
inaugural chair of the Corporations, Securities and Antitrust
Practice Group of the Federalist Society, and, from 1989-91, was
chair of the Economics Committee of the ABA Antitrust Section.
He is currently a member of the Advisory Board of BNA's Antitrust
& Trade Regulation Report and also a member of the advisory
boards of the Washington Legal Foundation and the Landmark Legal
Foundation.
Mr. Rule is included among the world's leading antitrust lawyers
in the Chambers Global 2000-2001 listing. His biography appears
in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the East, Who's Who in American
Law and similar publications.
Mr. Rule has written extensively and is a frequent lecturer on
a variety of antitrust and regulatory topics, and he contributes
a regular column on antitrust issues to the Daily Deal. (See attached
publications list.)
Mr. Rule received his JD in 1981 from the University of Chicago
Law School and his BA, summa cum laude, in 1978 from Vanderbilt
University. He served as a law clerk for Chief Judge Daniel M.
Friedman of the old United States Court of Claims (now the Court
of Appeals for the Federal Circuit). He is on the Visiting Committee
for the University of Chicago Law School. He is admitted to the
bar in the District of Columbia.
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