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The dream team included three Google lawyers headed by David Drummond.
The second one was Google’s deputy general counsel Nicole Wong, a Chinese
American, who is always calm and logical. The third was a bright young Korean
American attorney, Michael Kwun, who was in charge of all the lawsuit’s
details.
Three other lawyers were top lawyers from the famous legal firm Keker
& Van Ness. These three were headed
by John Keker, who had handled numerous high profile lawsuit including former
President Reagon’s Iran Contra case and the famous investment banker Frank
Quattrone’s lawsuit. From John’s team was a technology law expert of Indian
descent, Ragesh Tangri, who knows enough about computers to work as a manager
for a high tech company. There was also Susan Harriman, who is soft spoken but
can turn into another person during cross examination. When she role-played
cross examining with me, her relentless questioning made me feel as intimidated
as facing a real Microsoft lawyer!
Finally, Brad Keller was my personal lawyer. Brad has a mellow and
likable charisma that many could mistake him for a gentleman from a southern
plantation.
The dream team boosted my confidence in the lawsuit. We worked together
for six weeks, during which our first task was “discovery.” We asked Microsoft
for the emails I had written and received at work, as well as other
Microsoft-internal documents, to be used as evidence.
Microsoft was legally obligated to provide those emails, so they
did. But we received a lot more than we requested. They also gave us my former
colleagues’ messages related to my Microsoft emails. The total exceeded
300,000!
The 300,000 emails were in PDF files on 20 CDs. These files had no text
but only pictures of the emails, as though they were photographs. That meant we
couldn’t use key words to search passages.
“Are we going to read these emails one by one?” My lawyers expressed their
overwhelmed feelings.
Obviously Microsoft wanted to make it difficult for us. However, they
forgot that I was a speech recognition expert. I calmly told my lawyers, “Don’t
worry. I’ll solve the problem.”
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