Assistant Attorney General – Antitrust and Scaled Industries Division
The Tennessee Attorney General’s Office is a full-service law firm, representing the State in litigation, transactional matters, and investigations and providing day-to-day legal advice to a wide variety of state entities and officials. The Attorney General’s Office employs approximately 200 attorneys organized into 21 legal divisions within six sections.
About the Antitrust and Scaled Industries (ATASI) Division
The ATASI Division engages in the full range of antitrust enforcement, while also handling consumer protection matters involving companies of immense scale. The Division works closely with colleagues in the Office’s Consumer Protection Division, as well as antitrust and consumer protection enforcers from other states and the federal government on matters of regional or national impact. This work includes, most recently, antitrust suits against Ticketmaster, NCAA, Google, and Apple, as well as holding social media platforms accountable for harms suffered by young users and serving in the leadership of the national opioids settlement negotiations.
Responsibilities
This Assistant Attorney General (AAG) will engage in investigations and litigation to protect the rights of Tennessee consumers against anticompetitive mergers, price fixing, monopolistic business practices, and other misconduct by the most powerful corporations in the world. Tennessee is a national leader in antitrust and consumer protection, and attorneys in the Division enjoy significant responsibility and numerous opportunities to work on high-profile and meaningful cases enforcing state and federal antitrust and consumer protection laws.
AAGs participate in all phases of antitrust and consumer protection enforcement. Primary responsibilities include:
- Trying cases;
- Collaborating with other attorneys, paralegals, and support staff within our office;
- Employing the State’s pre-suit investigative tools to gather information;
- Interviewing potential witnesses and taking testimony;
- Analyzing documentary and economic evidence and formulating legal theories;
- Obtaining, providing, and evaluating electronic discovery;
- Working with economists and other expert witnesses;
- Coordinating with other state and federal enforcers in joint investigations and litigation;
- Drafting pleadings, motions, briefs, and other court documents;
- Arguing trial court motions and appeals; and
- Negotiating settlements as appropriate.
Qualifications
Qualifications
The following criteria are strongly preferred:
- Four or more years of civil litigation work experience;
- Antitrust or consumer protection experience;
- Complex commercial litigation experience;
- Strong analytical, legal writing, and oral advocacy skills;
- Demonstrated successful negotiation skills; and
- Electronic discovery experience.
Application Process
Please submit your cover letter, resume, contact information for at least 3 references, law school transcript and legal writing sample to hrteam@ag.tn.gov.
