Uber Unfazed by Sexual Assault Verdicts
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Uber has set a determined tone following three recent jury verdicts in passenger sexual assault cases, arguing the outcomes showed the strength of its legal defenses and dampened “unrealistic expectations” of high-figure settlements, Isaiah Poritz reports.
“We are in no way deterred, I think quite the opposite,” said Allison Brown of Kirkland & Ellis, Uber’s lead attorney in two of three bellwether jury trials, in an exclusive interview.
Uber was cleared in its first California passenger sexual assault trial last year. In February, it lost its first federal bellwether case in ...