The Hearsay News, Bolinas’s iconoclastic community bulletin, distributes a mere few hundred copies per issue and has never had a paid employee. Last month, the tiny operation acquired the same law firm that has represented Pfizer, Microsoft and the government of Brazil to defend it in a defamation lawsuit.
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer, one of the nation’s most prominent firms, has taken on the Hearsay’s defense pro bono, joining Bolinas attorney Jack…