Facebook Hires New VP and General Counsel Ted Ullyot from Kirkland & Ellis

Facebook is beefing up its corporate legal team with the addition of Ted Ullyot, most recently of Kirkland & Ellis where he was recruited by former US special prosecutor Kenneth Starr, Jessica Guynn at the LA Times reports.

Ullyot has very strong ties to the Republican Party, having previously worked as a White House lawyer “who helped coordinate the response to the investigation into the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame’s identity and serving as chief of staff to former U.S.

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