Alan Dershowitz waded into the debate this week over Steve Bannon, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for chief White House strategist, dismissing charges of anti-Semitism directed at the aide and throwing back those allegations at the political left. “I think we have to be very careful before we accuse any particular individual of being an anti-Semite,”…
Hillary Clinton has not asked Alan Dershowitz to play the role of Trump in her upcoming debate camp. But, as Dershowitz told Politico, he’s more than happy to help. “Of course I would do it if asked — I think I could do a pretty good Donald Trump impression,” he said. “I’m happy to do…
Lawyers who named Alan Dershowitz in a filing naming men alleged to have had sex with underage girls now say it was a mistake to do so. The joint statement Friday by Dershowitz, Bradley Edwards and Paul Cassell say the sides have dropped dueling lawsuits arising out of the case. “Edwards and Cassell acknowledge that…
I have to preface this story by admitting that I did not know who Alan Dershowitz was until about a month ago. (Hi, Alan.) I was writing a different article for this newspaper, about the collection of the Valmadonna, a famous Judaica library broken up and sold in pieces, and I was speaking with an…
Legal eagle Alan Dershowitz is reportedly suing a Boston arena for $6,000 after he slipped and fell on a wet bathroom floor during a 2012 Boston Celtics playoff game. The high-powered attorney says management of the TD Garden failed to maintain the supply of paper towels in the men’s room, leading to dangerous spills on…
(Reuters) — Prominent U.S. litigator David Boies is squaring off against another top American attorney, Alan Dershowitz, in a legal fight centered around a woman who says she was trafficked for sex as an underage girl. Boies and his firm are representing Virginia Roberts, who is a possible witness in a defamation lawsuit in Florida state…
A Manhattan federal judge has ruled that the U.S. government is liable for the accidental death of the sister-in-law of prominent criminal defense lawyer Alan Dershowitz. Marilyn Dershowitz, 68, was crushed to death by a U.S. Postal Service truck while bicycling with her husband, Nathan, in Manhattan in 2011. The driver of the truck was…
A woman who said in court papers she was forced as an underage girl to have sex with Britain’s Prince Andrew, prominent U.S. lawyer Alan Dershowitz and other men cannot join an ongoing lawsuit in Florida, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday. The lawsuit, filed in 2008, seeks to undo a non-prosecution agreement between federal…
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