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Uber Lawyers getting threatened for conduct in sexual assault cases

https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/ubers-lawyers-gettin...
fighting private investor
  08/22/26
Nancy Gupta-Kaur Shlonenberg
fuchsia sanctuary coldplay fan
  08/22/26
https://www.kirkland.com/lawyers/b/brown-allison
plum market
  08/22/26
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shimmering locus
  08/22/26


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Date: August 22nd, 2026 11:16 AM
Author: fighting private investor

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.

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Date: August 22nd, 2026 11:26 AM
Author: fuchsia sanctuary coldplay fan

Nancy Gupta-Kaur Shlonenberg

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Date: August 22nd, 2026 12:10 PM
Author: plum market

https://www.kirkland.com/lawyers/b/brown-allison

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Date: August 22nd, 2026 12:04 PM
Author: shimmering locus



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