Blackwater Sues Former Lawyers for MalpracticeFor years, the families of the four Blackwater guards killed in the infamous Fallujah incident have carried on a wrongful death lawsuit against the company. A House oversight committee investigation faulted the company’s cost-cutting for leaving the guards vulnerable to the ambush.
But Blackwater, always in need of very good lawyering, says that if it weren’t for some lousy (though very expensive) lawyers, they would have easily disposed of the lawsuit already. From Legal Times:
Blackwater Security filed a $30 million malpractice suit against Wiley Rein on Wednesday, alleging that the firm made costly missteps in a wrongful death case brought on behalf of four former Blackwater employees who were killed in Iraq in 2004.
Somewhat awkwardly, one of the lawyers who was on that Wiley, Rein team being sued for incompetence is current White House counsel Fred Fielding. It’s nothing personal, I guess.
Blackwater dropped Wiley, Rein back in 2005, opting for another heavy-hitting firm, Greenberg, Traurig. The suit is ongoing.