Big tech lawyers for Apple and others ‘actively encouraging lawlessness’

A WSJ piece today suggests that big tech lawyers for Apple, Amazon, Google and other industry giants are not only failing to properly advise their clients, but are “actively encouraging” them to break the law. The piece suggests that one reason Apple was rebuked by the judge in the Epic Games lawsuit was that its lawyers encouraged the company to abuse legal privilege … To understand the basis of this argument, we need to quickly recap on what happened in lawsuit filed against the company by Epic Games. Apple mostly won – but the company aggressively resisted complying in the one area where it lost. The iPhone maker said that if it had to allow in-app purchases to be made outside the App Store, it would still demand the same net commission after payment processing fees. This negated the clear intent of the judge’s ruling. Apple claimed that its motivation for this decision for this decision was not financial. The judge in the case strongly implied that she didn’t believe this, and ... Read full article.