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Uber has a law firm investigating me – Susan Fowler

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Re: Uber has a law firm investigating me – Susan Fowler

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It seems to me, that any decent Law firm would have told her not to tweet about it imho. /ianal

It doesn't seem like a bad idea to me. If they're investigating her to mount a smear campaign, getting out in front of it sounds like a good idea. But I'm not a lawyer, so what do I know?

Re: Uber has a law firm investigating me – Susan Fowler

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It seems to me, that any decent Law firm would have told her not to tweet about it imho. /ianal

Trying a case via the media to push a large company into a settlement is hardly a new strategy, especially with a company like Uber that's getting large amounts of bad PR.

Re: Uber has a law firm investigating me – Susan Fowler

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Umm, okay. I would fully expect this. Ms. Fowler seems to be a large liability for Uber. I don't find it unreasonable that "Uber has a law firm investigating ", if for no other reason than to find what she knew and when she knew it (or something along those lines), were she to sue what are the potential ramifications, et. al.

IOW, I'm not going to run in circles over a seven word tweet that could mean about anything.

Re: Uber has a law firm investigating me – Susan Fowler

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It seems to me, that any decent Law firm would have told her not to tweet about it imho. /ianal

that, or they're giving her a sweetheart deal (i.e. low/no fee) because her case is high profile and they can write it off as an advertising expense.

Re: Uber has a law firm investigating me – Susan Fowler

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I had an extended exchange with an Uber employee the other day, in which he steadfastly refused to believe that Uber was going after Fowler after the initial reports of this. Despite countless examples of this kind of behavior in the past, he kept insisting that everything was only "alleged" or "unverified."

I'm not sure what kind of cargo cult they have going on over there, but it sure is effective at getting people to see past the most obvious examples of straight up awfulness. Explains a lot about what happened to Susan.

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