Bloomberg Law
July 26, 2017, 6:49 PM UTC

Travis Kalanick Hires Former U.S. Attorney Haag as Lawyer

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By Joel Rosenblatt and Eric Newcomer, Bloomberg News

Ex-Uber Chief Executive Officer Travis Kalanick hired former San Francisco U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag and one of her colleagues at Orrick to represent him as the ride-hailing giant heads toward a trial in Waymo’s trade-secrets lawsuit over driverless technology.

Haag held her post as Northern California’s top prosecutor from 2010 to 2015 under President Barack Obama, leading one of the largest regional outposts of the Justice Department and one of the most active in white-collar prosecutions. The other attorney Kalanick retained from the San Francisco-based law firm, Walt Brown, also specializes in ...

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