Jared Beck of Law Firm Beck & Lee Trial Lawyers of Miami, one of the Law Firms that Brought the Lawsuit Against the DNC and Debbie Wasserman Schultz<\/p>\n<\/div>\n A politically connected law firm in Washington, D.C., Perkins Coie, may find itself in the embarrassing and reputation-damaging position of being named a co-defendant in a high profile case where it is the sole legal counsel of record for the defendants. The Federal lawsuit was brought by Senator Bernie Sanders\u2019 supporters against the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and its Chair, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, for overt acts to undermine the Sanders\u2019 campaign while boosting the prospects of Hillary Clinton as the Democratic Presidential nominee. Under the DNC\u2019s own bylaws, it must act in a fair and impartial manner to all Democratic candidates during the primaries.<\/p>\n After the lawsuit was filed, Wikileaks released almost 20,000 emails that had been hacked at the DNC by an unknown party. The emails buttressed the allegations in the lawsuit and created so much media notoriety against the DNC that Wasserman Schultz stepped down as Chair along with three other DNC executives whose emails were leaked. Multiple emails also show lawyers at Perkins Coie engaging in strategy that appears to benefit Clinton over Sanders.<\/p>\n Adding to the growing interest in the lawsuit, a 38-year old process server, Shawn Lucas, who served the lawsuit on the DNC at their Washington, D.C. headquarters on July 1, was found dead last Tuesday in his bathroom of still-to-be-determined causes. The Lucas death came just nine days after an attorney for the Sanders\u2019 plaintiffs, Jared Beck, released a YouTube video outlining the serious allegations it plans to make against Perkins Coie in court. In the video (embedded below), Beck reads from an email that had been sent to Perkins Coie on July 25, indicating that plaintiffs\u2019 lawyers anticipate the filing of a motion in the Federal Court case \u201cto disqualify Perkins Coie LLP (\u2018Perkins Coie\u2019) as defense counsel in this case. It has come to our attention that Perkins Coie appears to be a potential material witness and\/or defendant in this case and, moreover, appears to have a potential disqualifying conflict of interest.\u201d<\/p>\n As of this writing, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for Washington, D.C. is not releasing the cause of death for Shawn Lucas. Prior to his death, Lucas had gained social media attention through a video<\/a> released of the service of process. In the video, Lucas compares the serving of this lawsuit to his \u201cbirthday and Christmas\u201d all rolled into one. He happily calls out to the DNC representative who eventually accepts the complaint, \u201cThank you so much, we\u2019ll see you in court.\u201d That video has now been viewed over 380,000 times.<\/p>\n Perkins Coie has both revenues and reputation at risk in this matter. According to its web site, it has \u201cmore than 1,000 lawyers in 19 offices across the United States.\u201d According to the legal web site, Chambers, \u201cits client roster now reads like\u00a0a who\u2019s who of social media and technology companies.\u201d Chambers lists three of the largest market cap companies in America as its clients \u2014 Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft \u2013 and notes that Boeing has been its client for a century. (Perkins Coie is headquartered in Seattle where Boeing was founded.)<\/p>\n What has to be equally distressing to a powerful law firm is that the Chair of its Political Law practice, Marc Elias, has been implicated in the leaked emails from Wikileaks and is turning up in the pages of the Washington Post, owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos, the CEO of its client, Amazon.<\/p>\n![\"Jared](\"http:\/\/wallstreetonparade.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Jared-Beck-of-Law-Firm-Beck-Lee-Trial-Lawyers-of-Miami-Which-Brought-the-Lawsuit-Against-the-DNC-and-Debbie-Wasserman-Schultz.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n