A Star Corporate Lawyer Now Set to Take On Corporate America
The New York Times
How Jonathan Kanter, the Biden administration’s choice to be the Justice Department’s antitrust chief, became a progressive foe of Big Tech.
Jonathan Kanter is an unlikely economic populist.
He has spent most of his career at leading law firms, representing big corporations. And it has been lucrative work. In four years as a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, before he departed to start his own firm in 2020, he made more than $20 million, working for clients like Microsoft and News Corporation.
But now Mr. Kanter, 48, is one of the most prominent figures in the accelerating effort among progressives to rein in powerful corporations. President Biden nominated him in July to become the top antitrust enforcement official at the Justice Department, a decision cheered by the left.
