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 Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General, U.S. D.O.J. - Antitrust Division  Avery W. Gardiner serves as Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. She is the front office liaison to the Division's Appellate, Policy, Networks & Technology, and Litigation 1 sections. She has also been a Trial Attorney at the Antitrust Division, and in that capacity she handled merger and anticompetitive conduct investigations, primarily in the movies, ticketing, and real estate industries. Ms. Gardiner was the lead attorney on the Antitrust Division's two most recent inquiries into the ticketing industry. She was also a member of the trial team in the Department of Justice's recently-settled case against the National Association of Realtors. Before joining the Department of Justice, Ms. Gardiner practiced antitrust law and general litigation with Kirkland & Ellis LLP in Washington, D.C. She was also a consultant with McKinsey & Company, where she focused on marketing and strategy issues in industries ranging from manufacturing to healthcare to consumer products. Ms. Gardiner graduated magna cum laude in Economics from Harvard College and cum laude from Harvard Law School, where she was also an Olin Fellow in Law and Economics. For over six decades, the mission of the Antitrust Division has been to promote and protect the competitive process — and the American economy — through the enforcement of the antitrust laws. The antitrust laws apply to virtually all industries and to every level of business, including manufacturing, transportation, distribution, and marketing. They prohibit a variety of practices that restrain trade, such as price fixing conspiracies, corporate mergers likely to reduce the competitive vigor of particular markets, and predatory acts designed to achieve or maintain monopoly power. 
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