In-House Attorneys for Yahoo, Google and Microsoft Take Shots at Each Other

• Posted by Law.com on August 20th, 2008


• Filed in News

When there are fireworks at a Capitol Hill hearing, the lawyers sit next to their clients and, at each pause, whisper something that we can only guess is a variant of “shut up.” But the witnesses at a recent Senate hearing were the lawyers: the top in-house attorneys for Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., and Yahoo Inc. And they put on a show they might have advised their clients to shun. At times the legal chiefs treated the room as though it were the OK Corral.

In-House Attorneys for Yahoo, Google and Microsoft Take Shots at Each Other