Interesting to see AI companies hiring new law firms to handle their defense in the book author lawsuit Carreyrou v. Anthropic.
First, Perplexity hired Mayer Brown lawyers (who are not involved in the 4 copyright lawsuits filed in the Southern District of New York).
Now, Anthropic has hired lawyers from White & Case:
These lawyers are part of the legal team representing ROSS Intelligence in the interlocutory appeal in Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence now before the Third Circuit.
Meta is being represented by Karen Dunn, Jessica Phillips, and Kyle Smith from Dunn Isaacson Rhee LLP, a firm that also represents Meta in the Kadrey v. Meta suit. Dunn was enlisted late in the Kadrey case but now appears to be the lead in this case. Lawyers from two other law firms that also represent Meta in the Kadrey case also are defending Meta in this case:
- Angela Dunning, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
- Kathleen R. Hartnett, Mark Weinstein, Elizabeth Lee Stameshkin, Bobby A. Ghajar, and Phillip Morton, Cooley LLP
Attorneys for Google and OpenAI, also defendants in this case, have yet to appear. OpenAI has nearly 80 lawyers representing it in the MDL litigation. It will be interesting to watch if OpenAI enlists a new law firm or sticks with some of its current ones.