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Muris, Timothy J.

Timothy J. Muris

Senior Counsel
  • Privacy and Cybersecurity
  • 独占禁止法・競争法
  • 消費者規制・州検事総長
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Biography

TIMOTHY MURIS advises clients on all aspects of antitrust enforcement, with a particular focus on mergers, civil investigations and strategic counseling. He also has significant experience with consumer protection issues, including rules, advertising, and privacy regulation. Tim represents clients before the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Department of Justice, the European Commission and other domestic and international agencies.

Tim was chairman of the FTC from 2001 to 2004, where he oversaw the creation of the National Do Not Call Registry, increased antitrust scrutiny of intellectual property issues, and challenged fraudulent and deceptive advertising and health claims to protect U.S. consumers. Prior to being elevated to chairman, Tim was director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection and director of the Bureau of Competition. He is the only person ever to head both of the agency’s enforcement bureaus.

Over his career Tim has been recognized by Chambers USA as a leading lawyer in Antitrust in District of Columbia (2005–2025) and is described as “brilliant across the board” (2023). Chambers Global, Legal 500, and Best Lawyers in America have also commended him for his work.

Experience

Representative Matters

  • Advised numerous clients in all aspects of Antitrust practices investigations, including horizontal and vertical restraints and monopolization.
  • Only attorney currently practicing with extensive practical and policy experience with FTC rules under FTC Act section 18, also called Magnuson-Moss rulemaking.
  • Advised multiple clients in all aspects of consumer protection law, including advertising, marketing, privacy, data security, and other information use.
  • Advised dozens of mergers to successful completion in a variety of industries, including technology and intellectual property, retailing, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and energy.
  • Advised multiple pharmaceutical companies regarding agreements involving branded and generic drugs.

Community Involvement

Membership & Activities

  • American Bar Association, Antitrust Section

Credentials

Admissions & Certifications
  • California
  • District of Columbia
Education
  • UCLA School of Law, 法務博士, 1974, Order of the Coif, Associate Editor, UCLA Law Review
  • San Diego State University, B.A., 1971

Capabilities

News & Insights

Tim has authored over 130 books, monographs, articles, and other publications. His recent publications include:

  • Co-author, “Achieving Change at the Federal Trade Commission,” Competitive Enterprise Institute, May 6, 2024.
  • Co-author, “Lina Khan’s Failed FTC Experiment,” The Wall Street Journal, May 6, 2024.
  • Author, “Former FTC chair urges agency not to tarnish a bipartisan legacy from Reagan to Obama: ‘We can’t ignore the last 40 years of antitrust based on protecting consumers,’” Fortune, April 3, 2023.
  • Co-author, “Turning Back the Clock: Structural Presumptions in Merger Analysis and Revised Merger Guidelines,” Competitive Enterprise Institute, February 22, 2023.
  • Author, “Neo-Brandeisian Antitrust: Repeating History’s Mistakes,” American Enterprise Institute, June 21, 2023.
  • Author, “Lina Khan and the FTC Go Back to the Antitrust Future,” The Wall Street Journal, January 30, 2023.
  • Co-author, “U.S. FTC Rulemaking to Prohibit Worker Noncompetes: What Comes Next?,” Sidley Update, January 10, 2023.
  • Co-author, “Back to the Future: How Not to Write a Regulation,” The Wall Street Journal, May 26, 2022; Republished by American Enterprise Institute, May 26, 2022.
  • Author, “Biden’s plan is a sensible path for bipartisan antitrust reform,” The Hill, April 15, 2022.
  • Author, “Biden FRAND Policy Will Help Protect Competition,” Law360, January 27, 2022.
  • Co-author, “A Key FTC Case Goes Down the Regulatory Rabbit Hole,” Barron’s, October 1, 2021. 
  • Co-author, “Screening out Innovation: Vertical Merger Principles and the FTC’s Misapplication in the Illumina-GRAIL Case,” Competitive Enterprise Institute, August 2021.
  • Co-author, “Chicago and its Discontents,” Chicago Law Review, Volume 87, Issue 2, 2020.
  • Co-author, “Antitrust in the Internet Era: The Legacy of United States v. A&P,” Review of Industrial Organization, Volume 54(4), June 2019.