Laura Kim draws upon her longstanding experience at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to advise clients across industries on complex advertising, marketing and privacy matters. She provides proactive compliance advice and represents clients responding to inquiries from federal, state, and self-regulatory bodies and currently serves as the vice-chair of the firm’s Advertising and Consumer Protection practice group.

Ms. Kim re-joined Covington after a twelve-year tenure at the FTC, where she served as Assistant Director in two divisions of the Bureau of Consumer Protection (BCP). There, she worked on key FTC Rules and Guides such as the Green Guides, Jewelry Guides, and the Telemarketing Sales Rule. She supervised these and other rule making proceedings and oversaw dozens of the Commission’s investigations involving compliance with these rules.