Jonathan Kanter sits in front of a portrait at Justice Department headquarters in Washington of former US Attorney General William Moody, who brought the case that led to the breakup of Standard Oil.
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Hetal Doshi sprinted down the marble hallway on the fourth floor of the Justice Department’s antitrust division last month.
“We won! We won! We won!” she shouted, bursting into a wood-paneled conference room where Jonathan Kanter, the assistant US attorney general for antitrust, sat talking with a team of young lawyers. Doshi, Kanter’s head of litigation, embraced him.