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and because I was teaching criminal law. I had a lot of freedom since no one really cared about criminal law at Harvard. Our students were unlikely to become criminal lawyers in those days. In fact

but he also faced the possibility of being extradited to the United States to face charges that carried far more serious consequences than those in Sweden. It was the possible American prosecution that he wished to discuss with me.

I had received several phone calls from anti-capital punishment lawyers imploring me not to file a petition for certiorari in the Tison case. “Count the noses

even though all the principles are dead and the case is more than 40 years old. I was one of the lawyers involved in the Chappaquiddick case—the investigation of Senator Edward Kennedy for driving his car off a bridge on the Island (or peninsula of) Chappaquiddick

I never served as a prosecutor (though I advise my students who want to become defense attorneys to work in a good prosecutor’s office for a few years.) Also unlike some defense attorneys

even when a rape has occurred. A cleaning woman in a fancy New York hotel accused Dominic Strauss-Kahn—then the head of the World Bank—of forcing her to have oral sex with him. His lawyers first denied that there had been any encounter

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

a somewhat puritanical prosecutor and was subject to a lawsuit for sexual harassment by a vindictive woman who was represented by politically motivated lawyers.

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...

as well as the one biological child they had conceived together. IT was an extraordinarily stupid move on the part of Allen’s lawyers

and I wanted very much to talk to him. I thought he was getting terrible advice from his lawyers. I tried to write him a letter. I don’t know if he ever read the letter.

pioneer in the international protecting of human rights. The seminar taught future lawyers how to defend foreign dissident clients and how to promote human rights in other nations.

she called me and we discussed her 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

113. In his deposition, Epstein took the Fifth rather than answer the question: “How many minors have vin procured for prostitution?” Jd. at 104. 114. In his deposition, Epstein took the Fifth rather than answer the question: “Have you ever coerced, induced or enticed any minor...

Case 1:19-cv-03377 Document1 Filed 04/16/19 Page 23 of 28 (a) He did have sex with Ms. Ransome. (b) He was Ms. Ransome’s lawyer. (c) Ms. Ransome’s statements about her involvement with Dershowitz preceded any contact with Roberts’ attorneys. For example, Ransome’s first contac...