
David Ellison needed more legal muscle. After Paramount suffered a bruising July hearing in its fight with a coalition of state attorneys general trying to block its $81 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery Ellison picked up the phone and called a lawyer used to hearing from CEOs in a jam: Beth Wilkinson. Wilkinson has successfully defended the National Football League and pharmaceutical giant Pfizer as well as Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh against accusations of sexual assault in his confirmation hearings, making her a go-to trial lawyer in high-stakes cases.























