Paul Hastings has actually fired back at the Coca-Cola Co., asserting that its representation of a start-up taking legal action against the drink giant for $100 million is totally proper which Coke’s effort to disqualify it from that case is a “strategy of harassment” targeted at offering Coke the edge in the match.
It’s a black-and-white case, Paul Hastings asserts, since Coke in April 2021 signed an engagement letter with the law practice on a human rights matter offering it broad latitude to deal with any customer it wants so long as the topic is “not considerably associated to a matter in which we have actually represented you.”