For the latest member of its all-star legal defense team, embattled song-swap service Napster has tapped Jonathan Schwartz, a former deputy to former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno who cut his teeth battling independent counsel Kenneth Starr.
Schwartz joins Napster as general counsel, reporting to interim CEO Hank Barry. He is charged with managing Napster’s legal defense and its compliance with an injunction issued in March by U.S. District Court Judge Marilyn Hall Patel, chief judge of the Northern District of California. It’s the first time Napster has employed internal counsel.
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