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Google Deputy General Counsel Nicole Wong (pictured) is testifying today at the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law. The committee is holding hearings on “Global Internet Freedom and the Rule of Law, Part II.” Her live testimony is over, but you can read the transcript.
Wong has some experience on the matter, having been in the middle of dealing with Google’s response to Turkey’s efforts to block YouTube, for which she got glowing treatment from the New York Times Magazine.
More on that, her BigLaw connection, and the other lawyer with a BigLaw past after the jump.
Back in November 2008, she and her colleagues were profiled for their work on the Turkey conundrum, and she was spun as the star of the show:
There was a vigorous internal debate among Wong and her colleagues at the top of Google’s legal pyramid. Andrew McLaughlin, Google’s director of global public policy, took an aggressive civil-libertarian position, arguing that the company should protect as much speech as possible. Kent Walker, Google’s general counsel, took a more pragmatic approach, expressing concern for the safety of the dozen or so employees at Google’s Turkish office. The responsibility for balancing these and other competing concerns about the controversial content fell to Wong, whose colleagues jokingly call her “the Decider,” after George W. Bush’s folksy self-description.
Prior to joining Google, Wong (Georgetown BA ’90, Berkeley JD/MJ ’95) was a partner at Perkins Coie.
She’s not the only BigLaw vet. Michael Posner (Michigan BA ’72, Berkeley JD ’75), Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, used to be at Sonnenschein in Chicago.
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