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06/09/2022 11:00 AM EDT
A growing number of lawyers inside America’s top legal organization say there’s something rotten at the American Bar Association: The leadership is in the pockets of Big Tech.
There’s long been tension within the ABA’s antitrust section between corporate defense lawyers and plaintiff’s lawyers who represent employees or smaller companies. But as the Biden administration and Congress push to rein in the country’s largest tech companies, that rift is turning increasingly hostile and the self-proclaimed little guys are ready to rebel.
A faction of dissenters inside of the ABA antitrust section is mobilizing against the group’s leadership council, arguing that so many of its members work for tech giants such as Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple that they cannot be objective in their approach to leading the antitrust section. Several of the dissatisfied members who spoke to POLITICO said they are pushing to get more plaintiff’s lawyers and reform-minded government enforcers in top positions.
The tension recently came to a head over a rare step the ABA leadership took last month: It sent a letter to Congress criticizing proposed anti-monopoly legislation that would prevent the biggest tech companies from giving preference to their products over those of their rivals. It was only the third time in a decade that the...
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