Joseph H Gibson

Named one of the key lobbyists in the world of antitrust by The Deal magazine, he provides clients with a broad range of assets. Mr. Gibson last worked in Congress as the Chief Minority Counsel to the House Judiciary Committee under former Chairman Lamar Smith when he was Ranking Member. In that capacity, he served as the top staff member for the Committee’s Republican members and advised them on all political and legal aspects of the Committee’s business. He was also the Chief of Staff in Representative Smith’s personal office during his campaign to become Republican leader on the Committee. In the private sector, he has lobbied on topics as diverse as telecommunications mergers, health care reform, patent law reform, competition in the technology industry, financial services regulation, McCarran-Ferguson repeal, drug approval standards, and data retention. He also worked at the Department of Justice as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legislative Affairs and as an adviser to the Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division. Before beginning his government service, Mr. Gibson represented clients in complex civil litigation and white collar criminal cases. In that capacity, he argued appeals before the Second, Eleventh, and Federal Circuits, as well as the D.C. Court of Appeals. He clerked for former Chief Judge R. Lanier Anderson, III, of the Eleventh Circuit. He earned his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1987. In 1983, he graduated magna cum laude from Yale University with a B.A. in Political Science.