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VW Hires Disaster Specialist Law Firm in U.S.
Volkswagen AG has retained the American law firm Kirkland & Ellis LLP to help it navigate a rapidly expanding array of legal challenges over its confessed rigging of diesel emission tests in the U.S., Bloomberg New says.
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Volkswagen AG has retained the American law firm Kirkland & Ellis LLP to help it navigate a rapidly expanding array of legal challenges over its confessed rigging of diesel emission tests in the U.S., Bloomberg New says.
The Bloomberg report comes as Canada says it may launch an unspecified "enforcement action" against VW if the company sold diesel-powered cars equipped with emission-control-defeating software. Several states in the U.S. also are launching or already conducting investigations into the VW scandal, including California, Connecticut, Michigan and New York.
Kirkland & Ellis defended BP plc during the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig disaster five years ago. BP eventually pleaded guilty to 14 criminal charges and agreed to pay $22.7 billion to settle civil and criminal claims for the disaster, which killed 11 workers and created the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history.
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