A partner from Jones Day’s Washington office will soon join the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division, just as the division experiences a turnover of leadership, the Blog of Legal Times reported.
Leslie Overton will return to the DOJ as a special adviser to the Assistant Attorney General. She previously served as counsel to the Assistant Attorney General in the antitrust division from 2002 to 2004, before heading to Jones Day.
While at Jones Day, Overton worked on several high-profile cases, including representing XM Satellite Radio in a 2008 merger with Sirius Satellite Radio and Procter & Gamble Co. in its 2005 purchase of The Gillette Company.
And Overton’s return to the office comes as two senior officials make their way out. Assistant Attorney General Christine Varney will leave the office on Aug. 5 to join Cravath, Swaine & Moore, and her deputy, Katherine Forrest has been nominated for a federal district judgeship in the Southern District of New York.
Attorney General Eric Holder has not said who will lead the office after Varney’s departure.
