Jul 20, 2017 · Ty Cobb: The veteran Washington lawyer is the newest addition to Trump’s legal team. He was brought on to be in-house counsel, meaning he will work from the White House.
Jul 19, 2017 · Jay Sekulow (personal lawyer): Sekulow is the chief counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), a radio personality and arguably the most visible member of the president’s legal...
Jul 08, 2021 · Here is a roundup of the lawyers who signed onto Trump’s lawsuit. Matthew L Baldwin Mr Baldwin is a partner at Vargas Gonzalez Baldwin Lombard and is based in Coral Gables, which is in Miami-Dade...
Jan 17, 2021 · On Friday morning, a few big shot lawyers joined President Trump’s legal team to fight the impeachment allegations in the Senate trial. Some of the names include Ken Starr who led the Whitewater investigation into former President Bill Clinton as well as Democrat lawyer Alan Dershowitz. Check out what Fox News reported:
Michael Cohen | |
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Cohen in 2019 | |
Born | Michael Dean Cohen August 25, 1966 Lawrence, New York, U.S. |
Education | American University (BA) Cooley Law School (JD) |
Political party | Democratic (before 2002, 2004–2017, 2018–present) Republican (2002–2004, 2017–2018) |
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Incumbent Dana Remus since January 20, 2021 | |
Formation | 1943 |
First holder | Samuel Rosenman |
Marc Kasowitz (personal lawyer): Kasowitz has been President Trump’s personal lawyer for over 15 years in a wide range of business and personal legal issues. He represented then-candidate Donald Trump in the Trump University lawsuit that settled late last year. He earned his reputation as a tough litigator arguing antitrust, commercial litigation and white collar crime cases. Some of Kasowitz’ more notable clients currently include Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch reported to be close to Russian President Vladimir Putin and the country’s largest state-owned bank, Sberbank.
Ty Cobb (White House special counsel): Cobb is the newest member of the Trump team, as well as the first lawyer hired to work inside the White House as special counsel. The former federal prosecutor will oversee the White House legal and media response to the Russia investigations. In private practice, Cobb specialized in white collar crime and congressional investigations. He is in fact a distant relative of the former baseball great of the same name.
Michael Bowe (personal lawyer): Bowe is a longtime partner at Kasowitz’s firm. He specializes in cases related to commercial litigation, real estate and hotel disputes, and insider trading.
Jay Sekulow (personal lawyer): Sekulow is the chief counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), a radio personality and arguably the most visible member of the president’s legal team. Before he was hired by Mr. Trump, Sekulow specialized in litigating cases related to free speech, religious liberty and human rights. His best known case is a 1987 Supreme Court religious rights case. Sekulow is also a musician and fronts the Jay Sekulow band.
Castor testified as a witness for the defense during a pre-trial hearing to Cosby's trial in 2016. The first member of Mr. Trump's legal team to address senators, he raised eyebrows with his meandering and at times confusing presentation that seldom touched on the issue of whether the Senate had the authority to try a former president.
Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana called Mr. Trump's team "disorganized," while Senators Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and John Cornyn of Texas said Castor took too long to address the question of the trial's constitutionality.
Schoen, an Orthodox Jew, initially requested the impeachment trial break after sundown Friday and all day Saturday to observe the Sabbath. Senate leaders were prepared to honor the request, but it was dropped before a resolution detailing the parameters of the proceedings was taken up and passed by the Senate.
He is well known for declining to prosecute comedian Bill Cosby in 2005 after Temple University employee Andrea Constand accused Cosby of sexually assaulting her in his home. Castor testified as a witness ...
Senate as it begins the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump, on February 9, 2021. U.S. Senate TV/Handout via Reuters. Castor is the former district attorney of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, serving from 2000 to 2008. He also served as the Pennsylvania solicitor general ...
Washington — Former President Don ald Trump is standing trial in the Senate for the second time, with this week's proceedings stemming from his conduct in the run-up to and wake of the January 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol.
Representing the former president in last year's trial, which ended with his acquittal by the Senate, was a cadre of well-known attorneys that included White House counsel Pat Cipollone, Jay Sekulow , Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz, former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi and former independent counsel Ken Starr, among others.
Clark was deputy national political director for Trump’s 2016 campaign, then became director of the Office of Public Liaison in the White House after the New York developer was elected president.
Powell was a federal prosecutor from 1978 through 1988, serving as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Western and Northern Districts of Texas. In the Western District, she helped win the conviction of organized crime leader Jimmy Chagra for continuing criminal enterprises.
After Santorum won in 1994, Scaringi became his legislative correspondent in Washington. Scaringi returned to Pennsylvania to work for Mike Fisher’s campaign for state attorney general, and served as an executive assistant to Fisher as attorney general from 1997 to 2001.
Sekulow, 64, is chief counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice, a conservative legal group.
Bondi gained national prominence while Florida’s attorney general as one of the key Republican state attorneys general who sued to overturn the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. The Supreme Court upheld the law in 2012.
Clark did accounting work for Gore’s 2000 presidential campaign, NPR reported, on his path to taking the role of deputy campaign manager and senior counsel on the Trump 2020 reelection campaign. Clark, 45, grew up as a centrist Democrat in Connecticut.
Powell was president of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers in 2001 and 2002.
David Schoen and Bruce L. Castor, Jr. will lead Trump’s defense team. The former president announced that “Schoen has already been working with the 45th President and other advisors to prepare for the upcoming trial, and both Schoen and Castor agree that this impeachment is unconstitutional – a fact 45 Senators voted in agreement with last week.”.
On Sunday, hours after the news first broke that former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial defense team had left him high and dry, Trump announced that two veteran trial lawyers had stepped up to the plate.
While the president’s legal team has a short time to prepare, it seems Schoen has focused on the claim that it is unconstitutional to try an impeachment in the Senate after a president has left office. The former president has many legal avenues for defense. His legal team may argue that the president never encouraged his supporters ...
The former president has many legal avenues for defense. His legal team may argue that the president never encouraged his supporters to engage in violent acts against the Capitol. The team may also point to Trump’s repeated calls for peace during the attack. Legally, “incitement” only involves direct calls to violence, ...
One person familiar with their thinking said Bowers and another South Carolina lawyer, Deborah Barbier, left the team because Trump wanted them to use a defense that relied on allegations of election fraud, and the lawyers were not willing to do so. The person was not authorized to speak publicly about the situation and requested anonymity.
Castor, a Republican who was the elected district attorney of Pennsylvania’s third-most populated county, decided against charging Cosby in a 2004 sexual encounter. He ran for the job again in 2015, and his judgment in the Cosby case was a key issue used against him by the Democrat who defeated him.
8, is unconstitutional because he is no longer in office.
In 2004, Castor ran for state attorney general unsuccessfully. In 2016, he became the top lieutenant to the state’s embattled attorney general — Kathleen Kane, a Democrat — as she faced charges of leaking protected investigative information to smear a rival and lying to a grand jury about it.
WASHINGTON -- Former President Donald Trump announced a new impeachment legal defense team just one day after it was revealed that he had parted ways with an earlier set of attorneys with just over a week to go before his Senate trial.
Trump’s team had initially announced that Butch Bowers, a South Carolina lawyer, would lead his legal team after an introduction from Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham. But that team unraveled over the weekend due to differences over legal strategy.
Many legal scholars, however, say there is no bar to an impeachment trial despite Trump having left the White House. One argument is that state constitutions that predate the U.S. Constitution allowed impeachment after officials left office. The Constitution’s drafters also did not specifically bar the practice.
Trump on Wednesday filed federal lawsuits against Twitter Inc, Facebook Inc, and Alphabet Inc's Google, tapping a team of eight lawyers to assert 1st Amendment and other constitutional claims against the companies for allegedly silencing conservative views.
Kelly represented the estate of Nicole Brown Simpson in her civil lawsuit against her husband and suspected killer, O.J. Simpson. Although O.J. Simpson was acquitted of her murder in 1995, a civil jury ordered him to pay $25 million in punitive damages to the families of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, who were together when they were killed.
Hundreds of his supporters launched a deadly assault on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 after Trump repeated those false claims in a fiery speech near the White House.
Joining Coale on the lawsuits are John Kelly, a personal injury lawyer at 30-lawyer, Greenwich, Connecticut-based Ivey, Barnum & O'Mara, and four other Ivey Barnum lawyers. Coale said he has known Kelly for decades.
Coale was also among the lawyers who took the lead in securing billions of dollars in settlement funds and attorney fees in litigation with cigarette makers in the 1990s.
David Thomas reports on the business of law, including law firm strategy, hiring, mergers and litigation. He is based out of Chicago. He can be reached at d.thomas@thomsonreuters.com and on Twitter @DaveThomas5150.
One of the attorneys, D.C.-based John Coale, gained prominence as one of the first U.S. lawyers to pursue litigation over a 1984 gas leak at an American Union Carbide Corp pesticide plant that killed thousands and poisoned more than half a million people in Bhopal, India. Union Carbide settled its liabilities to the Indian government in 1989 for $470 million.
After parting ways with five members of his impeachment defense team, former President Donald Trump on Sunday said that David Schoen and Bruce Castor Jr. would represent him, just eight days before the trial is set to begin.
In 2015, Cosby victim Andrea Constand filed a defamation lawsuit against Castor, accusing him of “undermining her credibility, misstating facts about her case, and twisting her story to benefit his political ambitions,” according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. Castor and Constand settled the suit in 2019.