Bernard Hollander has been perched in the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice for 59 years. He's 92 years old, and every workday, he knots a bow tie, laces up his sneakers and drives in for another shift. Hollander is the longest-serving lawyer at the DOJ, and in six decades, he's been up and down -- particularly when antitrust work fell out of favor during the Reagan years. So why has Hollander stayed so long on the job, especially when the political winds have blown against his specialty?
June 25, 2008 at 12:00 AM
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One of his first big cases, back in the ’50s, helped break RCA’s monopoly on color TV technology. He’s served every attorney general since J. Howard McGrath (reminder: That would be President Harry Truman’s third AG). He’s fought competition battles with carmakers, movie theaters, TV networks and newspaper companies. In other words, he’s probably forgotten more about antitrust law than most people reading this will ever know.
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