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Edward W. Correia

Litigation; Corporate Department

Education:
JD, University of Oklahoma, 1976
MPP, Harvard University, 1972
BA, University of Oklahoma, 1970

Experience:

Edward Correia is of counsel in the Washington, D.C. office, where his practice focuses on antitrust, consumer protection and international trade issues, including export control regulations. He also represents clients on state and federal legislative matters.

Mr. Correia has extensive experience in senior government positions as well as a broad legal background in antitrust, consumer protection, constitutional law and administrative law. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Correia served in the Clinton Administration as Special Counsel to the President for Civil Rights in the White House. In this position, he was a senior legal adviser to the President and other White House officials regarding the civil rights laws and various constitutional issues. He also coordinated the development and implementation of the Administration’s civil rights policy in a number of areas and worked extensively with Congress to further the Administration’s legislative goals. Mr. Correia was also appointed by President Clinton to the National Council on Disability, which advises the Administration on laws and policies affecting disabled persons.

Prior to his position in the White House, Mr. Correia served as Scholar in Residence at the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, D.C. He has been a Professor of Law at Northeastern University School of Law, Boston, Massachusetts, where he taught antitrust, constitutional law, legislation, administrative law, evidence and corporations. He was selected as the law school’s first Urban Law and Public Policy Distinguished Professor. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at American University’s Washington College of Law where he teaches First Amendment law.

He has also served as chief counsel and staff director of the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust, Monopolies and Business Rights; chief legislative adviser to Senator Howard Metzenbaum on Judiciary Committee matters; minority chief counsel of the Senate Subcommittees on Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights; Staff Director and Senior Attorney Adviser to Commissioner Michael Pertschuk, Federal Trade Commission; Assistant to the Director, Bureau of Competition, Federal Trade Commission; Assistant Regional Director, Dallas Regional Office, Federal Trade Commission; and Staff Attorney, Cleveland Regional Office, Federal Trade Commission.

Other professional experience includes serving as: Special Assistant to the Attorney General; a member of the Department of Defense Task Force to review the application of antitrust laws to mergers in the defense industry; a member of the Board of Editors, Corporate Conduct Quarterly; and a bar review lecturer on constitutional law, corporations, agency and partnerships. He is a widely published author on various legal topics. Samplings of his publications include:

* “A Model Antitrust Compliance Manual,” Antitrust Compliance: A Guidebook for Corporate Counselors, American Bar Association 2005 (with Kirk Jordan)

* “The FTC’s Regulation of Weight Loss Advertising Claims,” 59 Food and Drug Law Journal 585 (2004)

* “Making Sense of the Telemarketing Laws: How the FTC Rule, the FCC Rule and State Laws Fit Together,” The Antitrust Source (May 2004).

* “Six Lessons for Preventing a Civil Rights Crisis,” In-House Practice & Management (Feb. 2002)

* “Antitrust Issues in Creating and Joining E-Commerce ‘B2B’ Exchanges,” 80 The Antitrust Counselor 2 (Aug. 15, 2001)

* “The State Attorney Generals’ Tobacco Suits: Equitable Remedies,” 7 Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy 843 (1999) (with P. Davidson)

* “Joint Ventures: Issues in Enforcement Policy,” 66 Antitrust Law Journal 737 (1998)

* “State Enforcement and Settlement Policies Regarding Internal Compliance Programs,” 5 Corp. Conduct Quarterly 61 (1997) (with L. Breckenridge)

* “Ronald Reagan and the Judiciary,” Ronald Reagan’s America (Schmertz, Datlof and Ugrinsky eds.) (1997)

* “State and Local Regulation of Cigarette Advertising,” 23 Notre Dame Journal of Legislation 1 (1997)

* “The DOD Task Force Report on Vertical Integration,” 39 Govt. Contractor 12 (1997)

* “Re-examining the Failing Company Defense,” 64 Antitrust Law Journal 683 (1996)

* “Merger Policy for Failing Firms and Distressed Industries,” 19 World Competition Law and Economics Review 45 (1996)

* “Antitrust and Liberalism,” 40 Antitrust Bulletin 99 (1995)

* “Moral Reasoning and the Due Process Clause,” 3 Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 530 (1994)

* State and Local Regulation of Smoking and Cigarette Advertising (1994) (with R. Daynard, et al.)

* “A Model Antitrust Compliance Manual,” 40 The Practical Lawyer 83 (1994) (with Kirk Jordan)

* “A Legislative Conception of Legislative Supremacy,” 42 Case Western Law Review 1129 (1992)

* “Resale Price Maintenance — Searching for a Policy,” 18 Notre Dame Journal of Legislation 187 (1992)

* “The Uneasy Case for a National Abortion Law,” 5 American Prospect 84 (1991)

* “The Antitrust Laws and Insurance: Applying Federal Policy to a State Regulated Industry,” 26 Torts and Insurance Law Journal 813 (1991)

* “Courts and Legislatures Should Make Law; Agencies Should Enforce It,” 4 Antitrust 31 (1989)

* “The Federal Trade Commission: New Directions in a New Administration,” Blueprints for American: Transition ‘89 (Green and Pinsky eds., 1989) (with William Rothbard)

* “Antitrust Legislation in the Reagan Era,” 23 Antitrust Bulletin 361 (1988) (with Priscilla Budieri)

* “Antitrust Policy After the Reagan Administration,” 76 Georgetown Law Journal 329 (1987)

* “The New Entrepreneurialism in Health Care: Government as Regulator,” 61 Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 90 (1985)

Mr. Correia’s educational publications have included:

* Evidence, (audio tape lecture series on evidence) (Nu-wave Publications 1998)

* Constitutional Law, (audio tape lecture series on constitutional law) (Nu-wave Publications 1997)

* An Introduction to US Antitrust Law, (training videotape for corporate employees and managers) (Compliance Systems Legal Group 1996)

Mr. Correia is admitted to the Bars of the District of Columbia and Oklahoma.