A California state court judge has dismissed a $120 million defamation suit filed against Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld and litigation partner Douglas Rappaport by John Kirkland, a former partner at Dreier LLP and Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps.
Rappaport referred The Am Law Daily’s request for comment on the suit’s dismissalfirst reported by Law360to Akin Gump’s San Antonio-based deputy general counsel, Frank Stenger-Castro, who did not return a phone call. An Akin Gump firm spokesman said the firm does not comment on pending litigation. Akin Gump’s outside counsel in the case, Alan Weil of Los Angeles-based Gaims, Weil, West & Epstein, did not respond to a request for comment.
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