Bloomberg Law
July 26, 2017, 1:15 PM UTC

Uber’s Lawyers Should Be Booted After Aiding Coverup, Waymo Says

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By Joel Rosenblatt, Bloomberg News

Waymo claims Uber Technologies Inc. had an accomplice in the theft of invaluable driverless technology trade secrets -- the ride-hailing giant’s own lawyers.

Uber relied heavily on attorneys at San Francisco’s Morrison & Foerster LLP, or MoFo, to suss out and contain any proprietary information that may have been taken by one of Waymo’s lead engineers, Anthony Levandowski, when he abruptly quit last year. He later joined Uber, bringing with him other former engineers from the Alphabet Inc.unit’s self-driving unit.

Uber is now fighting to spare its outside law firm from being disqualified to defend the company against Waymo’s ...

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