Uber Said to Hire Law Firm O’Melveny & Myers on India Rape Case

By Eric Newcomer, Bloomberg News

Uber Technologies Inc. has hired the law firm O’Melveny & Myers to conduct internal fact-finding and handle any litigation in the San Francisco-based company’s defense in a civil suit brought by a woman who was raped by an Uber driver in India, a person familiar said.

Eric Alexander, Uber’s former president of business in Asia, obtained a copy of the woman’s medical report and carried it around with him, people told Bloomberg. Travis Kalanick -- who resigned as chief executive officer Tuesday night, but remains on the company’s board -- floated a conspiracy theory that ...