He's been involved with all of Trump's shady activities, so maybe he crossed one too many lines and was disbarred. Who'd would know? Cohen could go on working as Trump's underhanded fixer and still provide him with erstwhile legal advice, just bring in a lawyer when needed.

has a full legal team to do the paperwork I guess and Cohen's role is much more nefarious.

Also I heard that Cohen was just appointed RUMP's lawyer on Inauguration day....how would anything before that be protected?

the private business man, then as the president's personal lawyer. In both jobs there would likely be some amount of protected documents.

"jail house" lawyer.

I looked him up, he has a clean license

Can a lawyer represent a client in a state where he doesn't have bar credentials?

Common among those who serve the political world.

Cohen’s lawyer couldn’t name a single client that Cohen is representing when questioned by the judge Friday

Having no clients blows a big hole in the suppress evidence because of attorney client privilege argument

Broidy---- the one who paid off the former Playboy model.

More than "represent them" in a legal way.

believe it or not.

Makes sense to me

everything about these people is completely fake and shady

guess he will get a chance to earn his money

I can understand that if he's not doing a lot of lawyering things -- representing clients in court, filing court papers, taking depositions, that kind of thing.

But why would you have to have more than 1 client to be a lawyer? It seems to me if someone (e.g., Trump) says you're my lawyer, and there has ever been any lawyering going on there, then he IS a lawyer. Now, when the conversations don't involve lawyering, then that shouldn't be protected. But to say the guy isn't even a lawyer just doesn't add up to me.

Besides, he's been involved in many of Trump's business deals and negotiations and I don't understand why that's not considered a lawyer's tasks. All those agreements and legal documents in real estate deals!

Apparently Cohen went to one of the lowest ranked accredited law schools in the country and still managed to have a relatively low gpa like 2.0 The law school WMU-Cooley law school is equivalent to test prep classes just to coach students to be able to pass their bar exam.

Many lawyers refer to it as a sort of law camp.

https://lawschooli.com/should-i-attend-cooley-law-school/


https://www.lawcrossing.com/article/900042647/Thomas-Cooley-Law-School-Exposed-and-Why-Much-of-the-Legal-Profession-is-a-Scam/



So that is part of the reason people discredit his legal background.


Also he apparently couldn't come up with a list of clients when asked, that he felt were going to potentially be affected by this attorney client privilege outside of Trump, for whom the fraud exemption was applied in this process

So it's all pretty abnormal and that is why people are suggesting that he hasn't done a lot of "lawyering things"

...for that matter maybe he never took the bar exam. It would mean he has no license, am I right?
Having a law degree doesn't mean you can automatically practice law.

But it does show how out of his league he is dealing with some of the best legal minds in the country


http://www.newsweek.com/cohen-joke-gpa-lawyer-881234


Apparently, Cohen used to joke about his low grades

... appears to be whether there is any reason to be concerned over whether or not privileged material about clients could be caught up in the material seized.

If they are looking at communications between Cohen and a client other than Trump, that’s potentially a problem. But if Cohen did not have any clients other than Trump, then that’s not much of a problem. That means the only material they’re looking at would be Trump material. That could still be privileged material and communications - even if Trump is the ONLY client. But not everything you tell your lawyer is privileged, and there are some exceptions even if it is privileged.

The prosecutors look to be defining and specifying the actual issues before the court - not trying to claim Cohen has lost his attorney status.

This Twitter thread rollup shows Cohen hanging out with only the best people


https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/984902943064420352.html



Who's who here, Russian mobsters, bankers, Trump partners, and so on

They had a search warrant and retrieved what they needed. So long as everything they took was within the constraints of that search warrant there was nothing legally preventing them from going through everything they retrieved the instant they had it.

IMO this delaying tactic is a bit late to do any good. Cohen and Spanky can ASK for a restraining order, but it seems that until it's granted there's nothing keeping the feds from doing whatever they need with any evidence they legally collected (someone correct me if that's wrong).

in terms of what he actually does for a living.

I was responding to post #2 and should have replied to him/her instead of the OP.

Strange political times we live in...

Review of docs
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/michael-cohen-client-public-article-1.3936561

lawyers can know little about different areas of law as most usually specialize.

Or what they know is dependent on how many clerks they have and how good they are. Add to this that Cohen appears to be someone who did a lot of threatening and very little litigation (if that is the case) so he may be especially unqualified to handle this situation.

I am not a lawyer, but this is my understanding.