Big Law Jumps Into Document Dispute in Meta's Facebook Antitrust Lawsuit | National Law Journal - Law.com

What You Need to Know

• Major law firms backing rival social media and technology companies have joined the FTC's antitrust lawsuit against Facebook.
• The companies and their counsel are seeking to prevent Facebook's in-house lawyers from viewing highly sensitive documents about their businesses through discovery.
• Meta argues that excluding in-house counsel from important documents in the case would impede the company's defense.

Major law firms are jumping into the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust lawsuit against Meta to represent technology companies seeking to have their corporate secrets shielded from Facebook’s in-house counsel.

The companies, which include social media platforms Twitter, Reddit, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Snap along with the online dating company Match Group and the software giant Oracle, said they either turned over information to the FTC as part of its investigation into Meta or have been subpoenaed by Meta in discovery.

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source: https://www.law.com/nationallawjournal/2022/03/17/big-law-jumps-into-document-dispute-in-metas-facebook-antitrust-lawsuit/

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