A Manhattan grand jury indicted former President Donald Trump on Thursday following a probe into hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels. The investigation has started and stopped so many times that it has come to be known as a “zombie case” like the mythical character who returns from the dead.
Attorneys Susan Necheles, Joe Tacopina and Chad Seigel are set to defend Trump in the case. Necheles and Tacopina, both former Brooklyn prosecutors, said Thursday that they would “vigorously fight” the charges. Read more about Trump’s lawyers.
The indictment has thrust into the spotlight Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, whose office convinced a New York grand jury to bring the first criminal charges ever against a former U.S. president. Learn more about Bragg.
Tesla has been sued by John Goode, a Black former general manager who says he was fired for pushing back against comments by his white supervisor that he claims were racist, the latest in a series of race bias cases against the world’s most valuable automaker. Read more.
Today, in a separate race bias case, Owen Diaz, a Black former Tesla factory worker, lost his bid for a mistrial after claiming the company’s lawyers violated court rules by trying to turn jurors against him. Read more.
In some ways, it may be a conceit of the legal profession that so many lawyers aspire to write fiction. But there’s a sizeable gap between thinking you can write a novel and actually getting paid to do so. Gary Born, who chairs WilmerHale’s international arbitration practice, pulled it off with the publication of his first novel this week, an action thriller starring a 28-year-old botanist. Jenna Greene in her latest column spoke with Born as well as lawyers-turned-authors Jasmine Guillory and Lisa Scottoline about how a legal background can help — or hinder — creative writing.
