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and the case was assigned by the senior partner to a well-known woman lawyer active in feminist causes. She found the story implausible – so much so that the lawyers decided to waive a jury trial and have the case decided by a judge

Robert Bennett. Bennett allowed his client to be questioned under oath in a deposition about the details of his sex life and to deny that he had sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky. This sworn denial became the basis for an impeachment investigation and opened the way for the...

be prepared to be fired for telling him or her what they don’t want to hear. Famous people often get bad medical treatment and bad legal service for the same reason: the doctor and lawyer don’t want to offend or upset them and care more about keeping the patient or client than...

but I was particularly appalled by the length of the sentence and the religiously discriminatory reason the judge gave for imposing it. I agreed therefore to brief and argue the sentencing issue on the appeal (a team of Texas lawyer had been retained long before to argue against...

Tammy Faye Bakker declared the judicial ruling “a great victory for Christianity.” I responded that “the fact that a Jewish lawyer helped bring that about must show that it was a great victory for all Americans.” The New York Times reported further on her reaction to our victor...

Jr. viewed the role of the lawyer as a predictor of future legal decisions and trends. 110 But the Talmud cautioned that prophecy ended with the destruction of the second temple and that he/she who tries to prophecy the future is either a fool or a naïve. Or as a contemporary...

“I’m not a circus performer either. I don’t perform free legal services for ingrates who refuse to do a small favor for a young child whose learning how to play chess. Find another lawyer and pay him the going rate.” He walked away. I walked away and I never saw him again.

…er situation. She had been indicted for acts she was accused of committing after she retained top flight lawyers. She then hired another top flight lawyer

things, whether the gray-haired money manager paid West Palm Beach girls for sex or transported them across state lines. Epstein is currently charged by the State of Florida with soliciting young prostitutes for sex - but federal charges would be far more serious. The Palm Be...

…n hideaway with a busty blonde who claimed she was a brain surgeon By Angella Johnson Updated: 21:26 EST, 12 March 2011 The official-looking document, left casually on a desk, marked the beginning of the end for Cathy and Miles Alexander’s eight years managing Jeffrey Epstein’s p...

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…ingarten, Reid Sent: 1/26/2019 9:24:09 PM To: J [[email protected]] Subject: RE: Re: As is often (but not always) the case you are correct....see if you can ‘get the book’ on him From: J [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2019 3:20 PM To: Weingarten...

Kellen, had called many of the girls. Epstein’s flight logs showed that the calls were made when Epstein was in Palm Beach. They obtained dozens of message pads from his home that read like a who’s who of famous people, including magician David Copperfield and Donald Trump, an...

… LOST ITS SECRETS before he left Hong Kong in June 2013. Why would Appelbaum keep it secret for more than four months? The same pressure to publish would also apply to the journalists Snowden had dealt with in Hong Kong. If Snowden had given Poitras, Greenwald, Lam, or MacAskill...

Ss LAWYERS J hw was a running sweepstakes or office pool for the unhappiest person in the White House. Many had held the title, but one of the most frequent winners was White House counsel Don McGahn. He was a constant target for his boss's belittling, mocking, falsetto-voice m...