During the presentation, outside attorney William Brewer used PowerPoint slides to brief NRA directors on his firm’s strategy for pursuing a pending lawsuit against the marketing firm, Ackerman McQueen Inc. Then came the alleged subterfuge: An employee of Brewer gave a thumb drive with the PowerPoint
-- The National Rifle Association’s escalating legal feud with its longtime public-relations agency has taken a bizarre turn, with the gun lobby claiming that the PR firm stole a confidential PowerPoint presentation detailing its courtroom strategy.
Then came the alleged subterfuge: An employee of Brewer gave a thumb drive with the PowerPoint file to an audio-visual assistant at the meeting so he could load it onto a laptop computer to display. That AV man was an employee of Ackerman McQueen and later “absconded with a digital copy of the presentation,” according to an NRA filing Thursday in Virginia state court.
Story continuesThe NRA isn’t satisfied. It filed an emergency motion seeking to halt the lawsuit until it gets to the bottom of how its legal strategy ended up in the possession of Ackerman and its law firm. Virginia ethical guidelines instruct lawyers who receive misdirected communications to promptly notify their legal adversaries. But the NRA claims the conduct by Ackerman has done “imminent, irreparable harm” to it and asked the court to consider disqualifying the firm’s lawyers.
For years, Ackerman has provided “AV and event-management support at annual and board meetings, and has staff on site coordinating with venue AV professionals,” according to the filing.The longtime relationship between the NRA and Ackerman McQueen soured in recent months amid political infighting that has followed revelations of lavish spending by senior gun-lobby executives. The dispute led to the departure of NRA President Oliver North two days before Brewer’s PowerPoint presentation.
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