Meta Director Kimmitt’s WilmerHale Was Paid for Company Work

Meta Platforms Inc. said board member Robert Kimmitt’s law firm Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr did as much as tens of millions of dollars in legal work for the technology conglomerate last year.

The firm provided legal services “amounting to less than 5% of WilmerHale’s total revenue in 2021,” Meta said in its annual proxy statement. The firm had nearly $1.3 billion in 2021 gross revenue, based on The American Lawyer’s reporting, so 5% would be roughly $65 million.

Kimmitt, the former U.S. ambassador to Germany and former deputy Treasury secretary, personally did no legal work for ...