{"id":657973,"date":"2026-06-25T18:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T18:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/657973\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T18:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T18:52:10","slug":"google-switches-counsel-in-uk-ad-tech-class-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/657973\/","title":{"rendered":"Google switches counsel in UK ad tech class action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782413530_888_ewogICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAiYnVja2V0IjogImZpbGVzLmxici5jbG91ZCIsCiAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAg.jpeg\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" width=\"945\" height=\"526\" alt=\"Google switches counsel in UK ad tech class action\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                        Shutterstock\/El editorial<\/p>\n<p>Google has instructed Freshfields to replace Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer as defence counsel in the \u00a313.2 billion UK ad tech class action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"login-title\">To read more<\/p>\n<p>        Subscribe to Global Competition Review<\/p>\n<p>                    Register for limited access<\/p>\n<p>Register for free to unlock full access to our Insight content, including Guides, Reviews and Hubs. Plus, get our newsletter straight to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/globalcompetitionreview.com\/account\/register\" class=\"btn btn-lg mb-xs-4 mb-md-5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Register now<\/a><br \/>\n                            Subscribe to unlock unlimited access<\/p>\n<p>Get news, unique commentary, expert analysis and essential resources from the Global Competition Review experts.<\/p>\n<p>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/globalcompetitionreview.com\/info\/subscribe\" class=\"btn btn-lg mb-xs-4 mb-md-0 mb-lg-5 mb-xl-0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe now<\/a><\/p>\n<p>        Already have access? Login below<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shutterstock\/El editorial Google has instructed Freshfields to replace Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer as defence counsel in the \u00a313.2&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-657973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}