It has a reserve fund to handle litigation, a spokeswoman said.
The Housing Authority, which employs about 100 lawyers and 100 support-staff members to handle litigation, would not say how much it was paying ReedSmith.
Ms. Cox declined to comment, but Ms. Wurtzel told me that she's had a "profitable relationship with Penguin" since the mid-1990s, and "litigation is no way to handle a dispute".
IP Nav put up $200,000 in capital, agreed to handle any litigation and would own 40 percent of the company.
But Wal-Mart elected to contest the citation, and hired the Washington, D.C., law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher to handle the litigation.
The panel chose Chief Judge Sarah Evans Barker of the Southern District of Indiana, whose courtroom is in Indianapolis, citing her ability to handle complex litigation.
"We had heard enough times, 'We want you to handle this litigation but you're not big enough,' that we had to consider a bigger platform to serve our clients," Mr. Stillman said.
Stevens dissented, insisting that the recount procedures were perfectly fair and that the state judges should be trusted to handle the litigation honestly, without having their impartiality questioned by interference from federal courts.
The firm is one of three the comptroller chose several years ago through a competitive process to handle such litigation and its members have always been steadfast supporters of Democratic candidates.
"He agreed that licensing, not litigation, was the best way to handle digital downloads," says Rodrigues.
