Google’s ‘Scrappy’ Outside Firm Aims to Sink DOJ Antitrust Case

Google’s bare-knuckle outside litigation firm Williams & Connolly takes center stage Thursday when the Washington boutique tries to dent the US government’s antitrust case against the Alphabet Inc. unit.

With alumni including Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, the firm craves the limelight for prominent clients that included Theranos Inc. founder Elizabeth Holmes in her fraud trial and British Petroleum Plc after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Amazon.com Inc. has tapped Williams & Connolly to fight the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust lawsuit.

“It’s a scrappy bunch of lawyers who like to insert themselves in the most important contests,” said Paul ...