It’s no secret that a big part of Chevron’s strategy to undermine any potential Ecuadorian judgment for its alleged contamination of the Lago Agrio region of the Amazonian rainforest has been to attack the American law firms representing the Ecuadorian plaintiffs.
Most recently, you’ll recall, Chevron’s lawyers at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher named three U.S firms as non-party co-conspirators in the oil company’s epic racketeering suit against the plaintiffs and their former lead U.S. counsel Steven Donziger.
