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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrumps Legal Team Is Bigger Than It Looks
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-legal-team-is-bigger-than-it-looks?ref=homeTrumps Legal Team Is Bigger Than It Looks
Half a dozen attorneys affiliated with the conservative American Center for Law and Justice are helping Jay Sekulow handle Trump's legal matters, including the Russia probe.
Betsy Woodruff
03.25.18 2:40 PM ET
President Donald Trumps legal team is bigger than it looks. Two sources familiar with the presidents team have told The Daily Beast that about half a dozen attorneys affiliated with a conservative non-profit have been helping Jay Sekulow represent the president.
Since the departure of lawyer John Dowd, American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) head Jay Sekulow has become the lone public face of the presidents personal legal team. But he isnt alone. Andrew Ekonomou, Mark Goldfeder, and Ben Sisney are among the attorneys who have helped him handle legal matters related to Special Counsel Robert Muellers probe, The Daily Beast has learned.
Jay Sekulow told The Daily Beast that everyone working for the presidents legal team is paid through his private law firm, the Constitutional Litigation and Advocacy Group.
Ekonomou is in private practice in Atlanta. He was formerly an acting U.S. attorney and head of the criminal division of the U.S. Attorneys office in the Northern District of Georgia. He has worked with the ACLJ on their litigation but is not an employee of the organization. He also worked on an amicus brief defending Trumps travel ban.
Goldfeder is a lecturer at Emory Universitys law school and has also worked alongside ACLJ.
Sisney works for ACLJ as senior counsel for litigation and public policy, and former clerk to U.S. District Judge Gregory Frizzel. Sisney signed the same amicus brief defending the travel ban that Ekonomou did.
The fact that these men have worked on Trumps legal team has not been previously reported.
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Trumps Legal Team Is Bigger Than It Looks (Original Post)
babylonsister
Mar 2018
OP
I am sure #PresidentSpanky has lots of lawyers working behing the scenes, yet...
riversedge
Mar 2018
#1
riversedge
(70,346 posts)1. I am sure #PresidentSpanky has lots of lawyers working behing the scenes, yet...
Gothmog
(145,666 posts)2. Great tweet
riversedge
(70,346 posts)3. I follow Seth. He is very informative.
Gothmog
(145,666 posts)9. Again, only Sekula has attorney client privilege with trump
global1
(25,285 posts)4. Who Is Paying For All Of Trump's Lawyers?....nt
dembotoz
(16,863 posts)5. not mexico
babylonsister
(171,102 posts)6. ...
babylonsister
(171,102 posts)7. From the article...
Jay Sekulow told The Daily Beast that everyone working for the presidents legal team is paid through his private law firm, the Constitutional Litigation and Advocacy Group.
Gothmog
(145,666 posts)8. The attorneys at the non-profit cannot represent trump directly
There will be no attorney client privilege between trump and these attorneys.