Talk about product placement.

When Microsoft Corp. wanted to show off its Surface tablet computer in a new online marketing campaign, the company looked no further than one of its own outside lawyers. It chose Chicago-based litigator Brian Prestes, a young Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott partner who just happens to be trial counsel for Microsoft in a bitter standoff with the Internal Revenue Service over a multibillion-dollar tax audit.

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