Some of the livelier give and take between Department of Labor officials and witnesses at the public hearing over its proposed conflict-of-interest rule came from former colleagues.

Timothy Hauser, deputy assistant for program operations and head of the four-person panel directing inquiries at the hearing, found his former boss, Bradford Campbell, sitting across from him in the fifth panel of the day.

Campbell was head of the DOL's Employee Benefits Security Administration, a post he left in 2012. Hauser joined the DOL as a litigator in 1991.

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Nick Thornton

Nick Thornton is a financial writer covering retirement and health care issues for BenefitsPRO and ALM Media. He greatly enjoys learning from the vast minds in the legal, academic, advisory and money management communities when covering the retirement space. He's also written on international marketing trends, financial institution risk management, defense and energy issues, the restaurant industry in New York City, surfing, cigars, rum, travel, and fishing. When not writing, he's pushing into some land or water.