Tom Clare (lawyer)
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Thomas A. Clare is an American lawyer who specializes in defamation law.
Career
[edit]Clare and his wife Libby Locke run the law firm Clare Locke LLP. They founded Clare Locke in 2014 after leaving Kirkland & Ellis LLP.[1]
Clare represented Dominion Voting Systems against Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell and Mike Lindell in defamation cases related to the 2020 United States presidential election.[1]
For about eighteen months beginning in the summer of 2019 he sent letters to journalist Patrick Radden Keefe, the New Yorker and Doubleday attempting to undermine the publication of Empire of Pain.[2]
In January 2021 Clare was retained by Adam Neumann to defend his reputation.[3] In 2022 he got HBO to change their characterization of the show Generation Hustle which featured an episode on Neumann and WeWork as being about scammers and true crime.[4][5]
Personal life
[edit]Clare's father was an aerospace engineer who worked for the Navy and his mother was a housewife.[1]
Clare identifies politically as an American conservative.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Larson, Erik (26 February 2021). "Conservative Power Couple Wage Legal War on Stolen-Election Myth". Bloomberg. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
- ^ Keefe, Patrick Radden (2021). Empire of pain : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty (1st ed.). New York. pp. 438–439. ISBN 978-0-385-54568-6. OCLC 1243902032.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Opfer, Chris. "WeWork Founder Taps Defamation Lawyer to Help Reshape Image (2)". bloomberglaw.com. Bloomberg Law. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
- ^ KECK, CATIE (14 October 2021). "WeWork's infamous founder got HBO Max to tweak a documentary about him". theverge.com. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
- ^ Patten, Dominic; Hayes, Dade (11 October 2021). "HBO Max Alters 'Generation Hustle' Descriptions Of Ex-WeWork CEO Adam Neumann; Drops "True Crime" From Docuseries' Definition". deadline.com. Deadline. Retrieved 6 October 2022.