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by noonespecial 5099 days ago
Lawyers may have Joe Ordinary "by the balls" in his divorce case, but I'm quite sure that no one has Google by the oo's. When it comes to law, scale makes a quantitative difference. A case this size is 100% politics and its manipulating the precedents for an entire country. Its damn near diplomacy.

"Big Law" is suffering these days. Law firms lined up for this one by the trainload, Google picked the best of the best and paid what they thought it was worth to them.