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Earlier this spring, Winston Taylor partner Jeffrey Kessler was the trust-busting hero of the Live Nation monopolization trial. In that case, he argued successfully on behalf of 36 states and Washington D.C. that the concert promoter’s tie-up with Ticketmaster had harmed competition. But Kessler induced whiplash a couple weeks ago when he signed on for a different sort of high-profile assignment: defending the Paramount–Warner Bros. megamerger against many of the state attorneys general he had just repped, alongside any consumer actions attempting to block the deal.
