“Where’s Preet?” is the unasked question of the Chevron Ecuador drama, according to Fortune’s Roger Parloff. My question—posed at the keynote of ALM’s Legal Tech conference Thursday—is “Where’s the bar?”
U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara has good reason to stay out the Chevron legal scrum. Yes, he could make a strong criminal case against Chevron’s legal nemesis Steven Donziger on misrepresentation. But the unprecedented scale of Chevron’s private fraud case against Donziger will satisfy the deterrent function of law, as long as the facts are affirmed on appeal. There’s no need to devote more court resources to discredit an enterprise that already discredited itself in live Technicolor five years ago.
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