June 17, 2020
A California federal court has denied WhatsApp's bid to block King & Spalding LLP from defending spyware company NSO Group from allegations of hacking WhatsApp users' phones, finding that the BigLaw giant's prior work for WhatsApp is not a conflict of interest.
June 01, 2020
King & Spalding LLP fired back at WhatsApp's "drastic" bid to disqualify the law firm from representing an Israeli spyware company that the messaging app has accused of hacking its users' phones, arguing that FBI Director Christopher Wray and two others who previously advised WhatsApp departed the firm "long before" the suit was filed last year.
April 30, 2020
Christopher Wray, who as head of the FBI has called end-to-end encrypted communications a boon to child predators, defended Facebook-owned WhatsApp's use of the technology while in private practice at BigLaw giant King & Spalding LLP, newly unsealed court papers say.