Google at odds with law firm over dual representation

Found on ITProPortal on Sunday, 05 February 2012
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Google is at daggers end with a law firm it's been using since 2008, after discovering that lawyers in the law firm, named Pepper Hamilton LLP, were representing a patent licensing business that sued Google's Android partners last month.

It is now apparent that with so much patent litigation among technology companies there is bound to be some overlap, among lawyers.

Well, we're talking about lawyers here.