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  • Google’s Lawyers Work Behind the Scenes to Carry the Day - NYTimes.com

    http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/04/technology/googles-lawyers-work-behind-the-scenes-to-carry-the-day.html?nl=todaysheadl

    Google Pushed Hard Behind the Scenes to Convince Regulators
    By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER and NICK WINGFIELD
    Published: January 3, 2013

    SAN FRANCISCO — For 19 months, Google pressed its case with antitrust regulators investigating the company. Working relentlessly behind the scenes, executives made frequent flights to Washington, laying out their legal arguments and shrewdly applying lessons learned from Microsoft’s bruising antitrust battle in the 1990s.

    Eric Schmidt, Google’s chairman. Google’s lawyers and executives played well with regulators.

    After regulators had pored over nine million documents, listened to complaints from disgruntled competitors and took sworn testimony from Google executives, the government concluded that the law was on Google’s side. At the end of the day, they said, consumers had been largely unharmed.

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