Latham & Watkins LLP has sued dozens of websites it says are using misleading domain names to impersonate the firm and at least of one its partners in violation of the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act.
The websites names all start with “LW” and include some kind of location indicator that looks similar to domain names the law firm actually owns, according to the complaint filed in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on Tuesday.
The complaint says a fraudster used the domain names to “impersonate a Latham partner in Latham’s Paris office” in order to “collect ...
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