George focuses on advising and defending clients in antitrust, class action, and investigation matters. He has experience representing clients in criminal investigations before the Department of Justice, counseling clients through merger reviews before domestic and international regulators, and litigating complex commercial matters in federal courts across the country.
George served as a law clerk to the Honorable M. Hannah Lauck of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. During graduate school, he worked in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Enforcement Division and the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division. In law school, George served as an editor of the Virginia Law Review and participated in the Economic Justice and Consumer Law Clinic.
George earned both his J.D. and Master of Public Policy from the University of Virginia, where he wrote his thesis on the role of truth commissions in the United States. Throughout private practice, law school, and college, he has won awards for his writing and takes pride in presenting complex issues with concision and clarity.
- Virginia
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
- Author, FTC Announces 2025 Thresholds for Hart-Scott-Rodino Premerger Filings and Fees, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, January 13, 2025
- Author, "All Dressed Up with No Place to Go? The FTC’s Ban on Non-Competes is Ready, but Legal Challenges Await," CPI Antitrust Chronicle, July 2024
- Author, Indiana Becomes Latest State to Enact Mandatory Reporting of Healthcare Transactions, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, March 18, 2024
- Author, FTC Announces 2024 Hart-Scott-Rodino Premerger Filing Thresholds, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, January 23, 2024
- Author, FTC and DOJ Release Draft Updates to Horizontal and Vertical Merger Guidelines, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, July 24, 2023
- Author, Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice Propose Overhaul of HSR Form, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, June 28, 2023
- Author, Minnesota Also Adopts Mandatory Reporting of Healthcare Transactions; Illinois Poised to Follow, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, June 5, 2023
- Author, New York to Implement Mandatory Reporting of Health Care Transactions, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, May 8, 2023
- Author, DOJ Withdraws ‘Out of Date’ Antitrust Enforcement Guidance Relating to Healthcare Providers, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, February 8, 2023
- Author, FTC Announces 2023 Hart-Scott-Rodino Premerger Filing Thresholds, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, January 24, 2023
- Author, New Spending Package Changes Merger Filing Fees, Bars Transferring State AG Antitrust Lawsuits, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, December 30, 2022
- Author, FTC Issues New Policy on “Unfair Methods of Competition,” Shunning Past Practice, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, November 16, 2022
- Author, Antitrust Enforcers Focusing on Clayton Act Section 8, Interlocking Directorates: Know Your Risk, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, November 2, 2022
- Author, DOJ Secures Guilty Plea in First Section 2 Prosecution in Decades, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, November 2, 2022
- Author, DOJ Antitrust Division Adds Promptness Requirement to Leniency Program, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, April 5, 2022
- Author, Seventh Circuit Stresses the Distinction Between Article III Standing and Antitrust Standing, Class Action Countermeasures, March 23, 2022
- Author, "Lessons from United American Corp. v. Bitmain, Inc.: Market Definition as the Battleground in Future of Crypto Antitrust Litigation," ABA Antitrust Section Trial Practice Committee Newsletter, January 11, 2022
- Co-author, "FTC Introduces Policy That Penalizes Repeat Merger-Clearance Players," The Antitrust Counselor, Issue 16.2, January 2022
- Author, FTC Announces Lower Hart-Scott-Rodino Filing Thresholds for 2021, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, February 1, 2021
- Author, FTC/DOJ Rule Would Enhance Premerger Reporting Requirements for Investment Funds, McGuireWoods Legal Alert, December 2, 2020
- Author, Enhancing U.S. Power Through Sound Financial Regulation: How Wall Street Reforms Can Defend American Hegemony, Virginia Policy Review, Fall 2017
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University of Virginia School of LawJD
Editorial Board, Virginia Law Review
2020 - University of Virginia Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public PolicyMPP2020
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The College of William & MaryBAPhilosophy and Finance
summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
2016
Recipient, “Law360 Distinguished Legal Writing Award,” The Burton Awards, 2025
- Hon. M. Hannah Lauck, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, 2021