Date: August 22nd, 2026 11:16 AM
Author: chandler (retired)
https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/ubers-lawyers-getting-death-threats-over-sexual-assault-cases
I’ve been defending companies in mass torts for 20 years, and I’ve never feared for the safety of my colleagues doing this job the way I have in the past week,” Kirkland & Ellis partner Nancy Gupta-Kaur Shlonenberg told U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer on Friday. “My colleagues are getting death threats. They can’t be at their homes. It is really serious.”
The New York Times article about Uber’s lawyers, headlined “Uber’s Strategy for Fighting Sexual Assault Suits: ‘What Were You Wearing?,” mentioned examples from depositions when Uber’s lawyers asked female plaintiffs about what they were wearing and how much they drank on the nights they say they were sexually assaulted.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5895929&forum_id=2#50084993)