Law.com: “A Minneapolis-based Barnes & Thornburg partner representing My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell is ‘no longer with the firm,’ the firm said Friday, a day after the partner put his name on a new federal lawsuit accusing voting machine vendors Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic of using the courts to stifle Lindell’s claims of election fraud. The Am Law 100 firm said the partner didn’t receive ‘firm authorization’ for the suit and the firm is immediately withdrawing as local counsel. Alec Beck, who has been a labor and employment partner at the 100 firm since 2019, is working alongside a lead counsel from Houston trial law firm Daniels & Tredennick in the defamation and abuse of process suit filed Thursday in Minnesota federal court.”

“‘Late last night, firm management became aware of the filing of the complaint, which was done without receiving firm authorization pursuant to internal firm approval procedures,’ a Barnes & Thornburg spokesperson said Friday.’While the firm cannot comment substantively on pending matters, the firm is immediately taking the requisite steps to withdraw as local counsel in this matter and end the client relationship. The attorney representing the client in this matter is no longer with the firm.’ Dominion sued Lindell for $1.3 billion in February over their false statements about Dominion rigging the 2020 election against President Donald Trump, including that the company was founded in Venezuela and rigged elections in the past. Thursday’s suit follows a separate $1.6 billion defamation suit that My Pillow filed against Dominion in April. In that matter, the company is represented by four attorneys from Minneapolis firm Parker Daniels Kibort. In the new 82-page complaint, Lindell accused Dominion and Smartmatic of conspiring to ‘weaponize the court system and the litigation process in an attempt to silence Lindell’s and others’ political speech about election fraud and the role of electronic voting machines in it.'”