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(October 30, 2012) -- Nov. 8—The American Bar Association will host its annual antitrust fall forum at the National Press Club, 539 14th St., NW, Washington, DC, 13th floor. At 10:45 a.m., Renata B. Hesse, senior counsel to the DOJ’s antitrust division, and FTC Commissioner J. Thomas Rosch will speak on the role of judicial bodies and regulatory agencies; at 12:30 p.m., Lynda K. Marshall, assistant chief of the foreign commerce department with DOJ’s antitrust division, will talk about international enforcement. An overview of antitrust developments at US agencies will include as panelists FTC Commissioner Maureen K. Ohlhausen, Leslie Overton, deputy assistant attorney general in the Justice Department, Howard Shelanski, director of the FTC’s bureau of economics and Scott Hemphill, chief of the antitrust bureau of the New York state attorney general. Privacy regulation will be addressed by David C. Vladeck, director of the FTC’s bureau of consumer protection, at 2:45 p.m. Consumer financial protection investigations will be discussed by J. Reilly Dolan, assistant director of the FTC’s division of financial practices, Lucy Morris, deputy enforcement director at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Deirdre McEvoy, chief of the DOJ’s New York field office. Ilene Knable Gotts of Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz is chairing the meeting; vice-chair is Nikhil Shanbhag, senior competition counsel at Google Inc. For more information, visit the website, http://www.americanbar.org/calendar/2012/11/2012_antitrust_fallforum.html....

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