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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly?
MSFT 481.72+0.2%Jan 28 3:59 PM EST

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To: Dwight E. Karlsen who wrote (7706)5/20/1998 1:36:00 PM
From: C. Niebucc  Read Replies (1) of 74651
 
Microsoft's Battle Offers Plenty of Work
For Lawyers, Lobbyists and Economists
By JACOB M. SCHLESINGER and PAUL M. BARRETT
Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

WASHINGTON -- The Microsoft Corp. battle has produced bitter charges and countercharges, but it means boom times for an army of antitrust lawyers, as well as a coterie of lobbyists, public-relations advisers and economists.

"It seems like almost every law firm in town has some dog in this hunt," says Charles Rule, who led the Justice Department's antitrust division during the Reagan administration and who now serves as a legal consultant for Microsoft. A partner with the Washington law firm Covington & Burling, Mr. Rule has been appearing on television to debate Kevin Arquit, a partner with New York's Rogers & Wells who headed the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust shop during the Bush administration and now represents Microsoft antagonist Sun Microsystems Inc.

Go here for the rest: interactive.wsj.com
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