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Originally posted by Rey HRH:
Color me surprise that he was already attorney general at one time. I figured that would have been the top of his public career and he would go to private practice. But he hung around public service in lesser roles???

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Originally posted by Sig Sauer Kraut:

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Originally posted by Rey HRH:
Color me surprise that he was already attorney general at one time. I figured that would have been the top of his public career and he would go to private practice. But he hung around public service in lesser roles???

No, he went into private practice and now is going back to government service. He didn’t hang around after being attorney general.

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After his tenure at the Department of Justice, Barr spent more than 14 years as a senior corporate executive. At the end of 2008 he retired from Verizon Communications, having served as Executive Vice President and General Counsel of GTE Corporation from 1994 until that company merged with Bell Atlantic to become Verizon. During his corporate tenure, Barr directed a successful litigation campaign by the local telephone industry to achieve deregulation by scuttling a series of FCC rules, personally arguing several cases in the federal courts of appeals and the Supreme Court.

In his adopted home state of Virginia, Barr was appointed during 1994 by then-Governor George Allen to co-chair a commission to reform the criminal justice system and abolish parole in the state. He served on the Board of Visitors of the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg from 1997 to 2005. He became an independent director of Time Warner (now WarnerMedia) in July 2009.

In 2009, Barr was of counsel to Kirkland & Ellis. He rejoined the firm in 2017.