This fall, Theodore Boutrous Jr., the co-chair of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s litigation group, sent two messages on Twitter that may have gotten him more public attention than anything else he’s done in his accomplished career.
On Oct. 12, after Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump threatened to sue The New York Times for publishing accounts of women who claimed that he had sexually harassed them, Boutrous tweeted that such a suit would be “utterly frivolous, a flat violation of the First Amendment” and offered to defend the Times if Trump sued. Then, on Oct. 22, after Trump vowed to sue those women for libel, Boutrous tweeted: “I will represent pro bono anyone Trump sues for exercising their free speech rights. Many other lawyers have offered to join me.”
