Google’s Defenders Honed Antitrust Skills Attacking Microsoft
- Top lawyers at Google were also veterans of the Microsoft case
- Justice Department turns to home-grown talent for litigators
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Google’s defense team in the biggest tech monopolization case of the modern era includes veterans of a similarly historic US antitrust case. But back then they were on the government’s side.
For the next 10 weeks, lawyers for Alphabet Inc.’s Google will face off against federal prosecutors and state attorneys general at the same Washington DC courthouse where decades ago several worked for the Justice Department or fought side-by-side with it in the last major US monopolization case against Microsoft Corp.