Bush's Election Attorney On HP's Legal Team For Congressional Spying Probe...

Bloomberg Joel Rosenblatt September 26, 2006 at 10:02 AM
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Hewlett-Packard Co.'s chief outside lawyer Lawrence Sonsini hired President George W. Bush's former top election attorney to help prepare him for a Congressional investigation of the company's boardroom leak probe.

Sonsini, 65, chairman of the Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati law firm in Palo Alto, California, hired a team that includes Michael Madigan and former Congressman Bill Paxon, both of the Washington, D.C., office of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. Madigan was chief litigation counsel for Bush's election campaign in the Florida recount during the 2000 election.

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