David Lawrence is Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General. David started his career at the Antitrust Division as an honors attorney in the Telecommunications and Broadband Section, following clerkships on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, for the Honorable Wilfred Feinberg, and on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York for the Honorable Richard J. Holwell. He joined the Front Office in 2016 as Counsel to Acting Assistant Attorney General Renata Hesse, assisted the management of the Division through the transition between administrations, and now focuses on issues in the telecommunications and transportation sectors. David is a graduate of New York University School of Law and University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he majored in Physics.
He completed his undergraduate studies at UCLA, earned his JD from George Washington University Law School, and holds a masters degree in biotechnology from the graduate school of Johns Hopkins University. Fun fact: Makan was executive producer of the movie Trash Fire.
Andrew Finch is Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division. He served as Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Antitrust Division from April 2017 until the confirmation of Makan Delrahim as AAG in September 2017. Previously, Andrew practiced antitrust law as a litigation partner in an international law firm. He previously served as Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General of the Antitrust Division from 2003 to 2005. He holds a BA from the University of California, Berkeley, an MA from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a JD from the University of Chicago Law School. He also served as a law clerk to the Honorable Dennis G. Jacobs of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Taylor Owings is Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General. Taylor joined the Antitrust Division from private practice in the San Francisco office of an international law firm, where she advised tech clients on the application of antitrust law to high-tech business models. In the Front Office, Taylor serves as a liaison to the Technology and Finance Section, the civil section of the San Francisco office, the Appellate Section, and the Competition Policy and Advocacy Section. Taylor clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, for the Honorable Douglas H. Ginsburg, and on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, for the Honorable Richard J. Leon. She was also formerly a member of the antitrust practice group in the Washington, D.C., office of another international law firm. Taylor is a graduate of Vanderbilt University School of Law, the London School of Economics, and Harvard College.
Julia Schiller is Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General. Among other responsibilities, Julia has advised the Assistant Attorney General on a wide array of civil enforcement matters and policy issues. Julia joined the Division from the Washington, D.C., office of an international law firm, where she practiced antitrust law for nearly 10 years, focusing on government merger and nonmerger investigations, civil litigation, and antitrust counseling. Prior to attending law school, Julia served as a Research Assistant at the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers. Julia is a graduate of New York University School of Law and holds an A.B. in economics from Princeton University.
Bryson Bachman is Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General. He assists in civil investigations, with a focus on vertical mergers, and manages relations with state attorneys general. He has also served within the Department of Justice as a Deputy to the Associate Attorney General, and as a trial attorney in which role he contributed to the Antitrust Division’s successful merger litigations against General Electric/Electrolux and Anthem/Cigna. Previously, Bryson served as Chief Counsel to U.S. Senator Mike Lee on the Senate’s Antitrust Subcommittee. Bryson also worked for several years as an associate in the Washington, D.C., office of an international law firm and clerked for the Honorable Thomas B. Griffith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Brigham Young University.