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Mayer Brown resigns from 'toxic' WW2 sex slave case
Mayer Brown has bowed out with a red face from bringing a law suit alleging that women forced to act as sex slaves to Japanese soldiers in World War Two were prostitutes.
Mayer Brown has bowed out with a red face from bringing a law suit alleging that women forced to act as sex slaves to Japanese soldiers in World War Two were, in fact, prostitutes. Aleksandar Mijatovic
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The issue over the so-called Comfort Women blew up when Forbes wrote an article on the involvement of the law firm, saying that the suit was toxic. The article resulted in 5,500 Facebook comments being made as a result of 90,000 clicks. Particularly embarrassing for the firm was that the organisation behind the action called itself the Global Alliance for Historical Truth-US and had only been set up in February this year. The name is similar to the respectable Global Alliance for Preserving the History of WWII in Asia.
Exclusion
The case was brought by the Los Angeles office of Mayer Brown and focused on a statue commemorating the women in a park in California which two Japanese-Americans wanted removed on the grounds that it gave them ‘feelings of exclusion, discomfort and anger’. Source: LawFuel
