Book Review: Desk Book of FTC Practice and Procedure

• Author: James T. Halverson
• DOI: 10.1177/0003603X7702200409
• Date: 01 December 1977
• Published date: 01 December 1977
• Subject Matter: Book Reviews

BOOK REVIEWS

Edwin S. Rockefeller,

Desk

Book

of

FTC

Practice and Pro-

cedure, New York: Practicing Law

Institute

(2d ed. 1976),

251 pp.,

$25.00.

Edwin S. Rockefeller has revised his

Desk

Book

of

FTC

Practice and Procedure, originally published in

1972.

1Since

that

time there have been significant changes in the statutes

that

govern the

FTC's

powers and in the Commission's Rules

of Practice. The revised edition takes account of, and explains

these changes, in understandable terms.

The book is aimed

at

those lawyers who

are

not

very

familiar with the Commission's practice

and

procedure.

After

introductory comments, the book is divided into eight chap-

ters. Chapter 3describes the

FTC

as an institution, with

useful suggestions on how to locate documents

at

the

Commission. Chapter 4considers the

statutory

responsi-

bilities of the Commission, and Chapter 5advises the in-

experienced practitioner on such

important

matters

as how

to handle an investigation, how to avoid an investigation,

how to complain to the Commission,

and

how to get infor-

mation from the Commission. Chapter 6 focuses on the

Commission's investigatory procedures;

and

Chapter 7 on

the quasi-legislative

and

quasi-judicial roles of the agency,

with an explanation of the

trade

regulation rulemaking

power. Chapter 8 looks

at

the Commission's adjudicatory

procedures; and Chapter 9

at

problems of compliance with

FTC

orders. Chapter 10 deals with qualification for practice

before the Commission and explains the rule against ex

parte

communications in adjudicative proceedings.

The book also includes anumber of appendices contain-

ing forms, selected from the files of the author, which will

be

very

helpful to the uninitiated

FTC

practitioner when

1The first edition was reviewed by S. Chesterfield Oppenheim

in The Antitrust BuUetin, Vol.

XVIII,

pp. 167-168 (1973).

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