Google for its antitrust case has hired Donald Verrilli, a former Obama solicitor general battling a Donald Trump law firm executive order in court.
Verrilli and a team of lawyers at his firm Munger Tolles & Olson entered appearances for Alphabet Inc.'s Google on Tuesday, according to court records. Google said in an X post on May 31 it will appeal US District Judge Amit Mehta’s ruling last year that the company illegally monopolized the online search market.
Verrilli is best known as a former US solicitor general under President Barack Obama from 2011 to 2016 and for arguing more than 50 cases before the Supreme Court. Munger Tolles announced in 2016 that Verrilli was joining the firm to open its Washington office.
He’s representing Susman Godfrey in its challenge of a President Donald Trump executive order from April 9 that restricts firm employees from accessing federal buildings and threatens clients’ federal contracts. Susman’s request to permanently strike down the order is pending, though three other law firms have prevailed with similar court challenges.
While nine law firms made deals with Trump to avoid orders and other big law operations have avoided taking public positions on the missives, Munger Tolles organized an amicus brief on behalf of targeted firm Perkins Coie and won the backing of more than 500 firms—at least 98% of which were outside the top 100 by revenue.
Verrilli and and Google didn’t immediately return a request for comment.
The case is United States v. Google LLC, D.D.C., 1:20-cv-03010, 6/3/25
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