Norton Rose Fulbright’s US LLP has rejected claims that it should withdraw from representing client Duke University in a case against the John Wayne Estate after the claimant flagged a conflict of interest between legacy Fulbright & Jaworski and Norton Rose Canada.
The firm’s US partnership, which, for regulatory reasons is still legally registered as Fulbright & Jaworski in the US, has been acting for North Carolina’s Duke University in a trademarks case against the estate of late Hollywood star John Wayne, which is suing the North Carolina university over the right to market alcoholic drinks branded with Wayne’s ‘Duke’ nickname.
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