Wake Up Call: Top Litigators Steer $2.7 Billion Suit Against Fox

Feb. 5, 2021, 1:58 PM UTC

In today’s column, the Trump campaign paid out $7 million in legal fees in the months following the presidential election; as the Biden administration hires lawyers for top posts, Jones Day and Kirkland & Ellis have been displaced as favorite firms; Hogan Lovells appointed its first-ever solo female chair; the NFL said litigator Beth Wilkinson is close to finishing her sexual harassment probe into the Washington Football Team.

  • Leading off, voting tech firm Smartmatic Corp. has veteran Big Law litigator J. Erik Connolly leading its $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News, Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, and ...

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