Bloomberg Law
Sept. 27, 2016, 9:49 PM UTC

Quintet of Facebook Lawyers Dispatched to Apologize to Judge

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By Patricia Hurtado, Bloomberg News

Days after a judge chastised a law firm representing Facebook Inc. for sending only a junior associate to court in a case alleging the company doesn’t do enough to deter terrorists, a team of five attorneys was dispatched to apologize.

“Your honor, we hear you loud and clear, and we apologize. We feel badly,” Craig Primis, a partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, told U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis on Tuesday.

Garaufis, who sits in Brooklyn, New York, is overseeing two lawsuits in which more than 20,000 victims of attacks and their families accuse ...

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