Top Akin Gump antitrust lawyer leaps to new firm with 2 other partners

The top antitrust lawyer at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has jumped to Squire Sanders, along with two other antitrust partners.

Former Akin Gump antitrust chair Mark Botti started work at the Washington, D.C., office of his new firm today. Joining him there are J. Brady Dugan and Anthony Swisher, reports the Capitol Business Blog of the Washington Post (reg. req.).

Squire Sanders now has 70 lawyers in its office in the nation's capital and nine in the firm's antitrust practice group there, according to the Post and the Washington Business Journal also has a story.