Facebook Taps Kirkland & Ellis to Battle Trump Free Speech Suit

Sept. 3, 2021, 2:44 PM UTC

Facebook Inc. is tapping a team of Kirkland & Ellis and White & Case attorneys to represent it and CEO Mark Zuckerberg in former President Donald Trump’s free speech lawsuit.

Kirkland & Ellis litigation and trial lawyers Craig Primis, K. Winn Allen, Kate Epstein, and Ronald Anguas will appear for Facebook and Zuckerberg, based on a motion filed Thursday. White & Case local counsel Maria Josefa Beguiristain and William Dylan Fay filed the motion in the Southern District Court of Florida.

Primis, Allen, and Anguas are partners with experience ranging from Constitutional law to class action suits, and Epstein is ...

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