Why doesn't he just run out and get his own paralegal with an even BIGGER
set? Better to fight fire with fire...or is it fight hooters with hooters?
I would LOVE to hear what our esteemed legal eagle Ms. Lewis has to say
about this as well. You can see this get out of hand in a hurry too.
CD
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Subject: Badges - Chicago lawyer objects to buxom woman at trial table
Chicago lawyer objects to buxom woman at trial table
May 26, 2011
A Chicago lawyer says his opponent in a
small-claims case is using an unfair tactic by
having a buxom woman sit next to him at counsel's table.
Attorney Thomas Gooch said the woman's sole
purpose "is to draw the attention of the jury
away from the relevant proceedings" - a dispute
over a used car. He's asking Cook County Circuit
Judge Anita Rivkin-Carothers to order the woman
to sit in the gallery with other spectators.
Responding to Gooch's pretrial motion, attorney
Dmitry N. Feofanov said the woman is his
paralegal assistant and that Gooch cites no
"good-faith legal argument" why she can't sit at
the table reserved for each side's legal counsel.
Feofanov asked Rivkin-Carothers to impose sanctions on Gooch for his
motion.
Gooch said he wasn't objecting to the woman
because she's buxom but because he doesn't think she is a paralegal.
"Personally, I like large breasts," Gooch said.
"However, I object to somebody I don't think is a
qualified paralegal sitting at the counsel table
- when there's already two lawyers there -
dressed in such a fashion as to call attention to herself."
Gooch said he and Feofanov previously faced off
in mandatory arbitration and that he objected to
the woman sitting at the counsel table and arbitrators asked her to leave.
According to Feofanov, the paralegal - identified
in court documents as Daniella Atencia - has been
paid as a paralegal in two court orders by Cook
County judges. Both times, the rate for the paralegal was $115 an hour.
"That's not a qualification," Gooch said. "That
means Dmitry handed up a bill to a judge that said 'paralegal' on it."
http://www.suntimes.com/5586915-417/chicago-lawyer-objects-to-buxom-woman-at
-trial-table.html
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