Badges - Re: Chicago lawyer objects to buxom woman at trial table
- From: Christopher Karney <chk8093@xxxxxxx>
- To: "badges@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <badges@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 18:06:03 -0500
What is making this more of a story is the lawyer owns a condo with the large
breasted woman. Her picture was in the paper, not a great looker.
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On May 27, 2011, at 13:50, CarlGlas@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Chicago lawyer objects to buxom woman at trial table
> May 26, 2011
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Gooch said he wasn’t objecting to the woman because she’s buxom but because
> he doesn’t think she is a paralegal.
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> “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.”
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> “That’s not a qualification,” Gooch said. “That means Dmitry handed up a bill
> to a judge that said ‘paralegal’ on it.”
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> http://www.suntimes.com/5586915-417/chicago-lawyer-objects-to-buxom-woman-at-trial-table.html
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