Taxpayers will pay for Gonzales' private attorney

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Source: McClatchy

* Posted on Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Taxpayers will pay for Gonzales' private attorney
By Marisa Taylor | McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has agreed to pay for a private lawyer to defend former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales against allegations that he encouraged officials to inject partisan politics into the department's hiring and firing practices.

Lawyers from the Justice Department's civil division often represent department employees who're sued in connection with their official actions. However, Gonzales' attorney recently revealed in court papers that the Justice Department had approved his request to pay private attorney's fees arising from the federal lawsuit.

Dan Metcalfe, a former high-ranking veteran Justice Department official who filed the suit on behalf of eight law students, called the department's decision to pay for a private attorney rather than rely on its civil division "exceptional."

"It undoubtedly will cost the taxpayers far more," he said.

Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/56078.html

[grannie4peace]

1. f that!!!

[dflprincess]

2. Fine

Just as long as he's forced to hire one of the attorneys he replaced the fired ones with. Rachel Paulose whom he put in charge in Minnesota has resigned. He can use her.

[4lbs]

3. Fuck that! Take back my share of it and give it the legal teams of those fired attornies.

n/t

[underpants]

4. I know you couldn't post all the paragraphs but this one is a keeper

Asked why Gonzales made the request, Gonzales spokesman Robert Bork Jr. said that his client "values the work that the department's civil attorneys do in all cases" but thinks that "private counsel can often be useful where (department) officials are sued in an individual capacity, even where the suit has no substantive merit."

Charles Miller, a Justice Department spokesman, said the department wouldn't have any comment on the reasons for the approval and wouldn't answer questions about the cost to taxpayers.

Robert Bork Jr.????

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5. I second that. Robert Bork Jr?

[underpants]

6. He isn't a lawyer- he is a Litigation PR Specialist

I didn't know barnacles had testicles for parasites to latch on to

Profile of Robert H. Bork, Jr.
ROBERT H. BORK, JR., IS AN experienced advocate specializing in the development and implementation of communication strategies in support of litigation and legal policy. In his many years of experience managing the public environment surrounding high-risk, high-profile litigation, he has worked on behalf of CEOs and general counsel of major U.S. and international corporate clients and their lawyers.

Mr. Bork is "considered a pioneer in the area of litigation PR," according to PR Week. He has designed strategies in some of the most important cases and policy battles in recent years. Mr. Bork's experience includes directing the litigation pr strategy for the former manufacturers of lead pigment, the national media campaign in support of ProComp, a coalition of hi-tech companies supporting the U.S. government's position in the Microsoft antitrust case, and the national earned media campaign of a large coalition of corporate general counsel seeking broad federal legal reform in Congress in the mid-1990s.

Mr. Bork regularly advises corporate counsel on a wide range of civil and criminal litigation including antitrust, product liability, intellectual property, securities fraud, economic espionage, white collar crime, mergers and acquisitions, First Amendment and employment discrimination. His work has been on behalf of clients in the automobile industry, pharmaceuticals, computers, software, chemicals, railroads, franchising, telecommunications, insurance, health-care, and former manufacturers of lead pigment. He has been engaged to counsel clients at every stage of litigation, from pre-litigation through appeals up to and including the Supreme Court of the United States.

"Bob Bork is not only one of the leaders in litigation communication he is also one of the top public relations strategists in the country," said Steven B. Hantler, assistant general counsel at DaimlerChrysler.

http://www.bork.com/robert-h.-bork-jr.-337.asp

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7. More obvious in your face Government corruption. I gave it a Rec.

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8. what????