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'Years In The Making': Paul Weiss, Kaplan Hecker And Cooley Are Taking The White Supremacists Behind The Charlottesville Rally To Trial
27 October 2021
Cooley LLP
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"When Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison partner
Karen Dunn arrived in Charlottesville, Virginia, earlier this week,
she had a few initial items to check off her list.
One was to visit the major locations where white supremacists
marched more than four years ago at the deadly 'Unite the
Right' rally, the subject of the civil jury trial that Dunn and
others will argue over in the coming weeks. Another was to check in
with the lawyers on her trial team. 'I just said to them and
acknowledged out loud that these are hard circumstances. Not only
is the subject matter very difficult, but we're still in the
world of trying cases during COVID, which can be very
challenging,' Dunn said in an interview."
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