Judge Allows Paula Jones’ Lawyers to Quit
A federal judge Tuesday let Paula Corbin Jones’ lawyers withdraw from her sexual-harassment lawsuit against President Clinton but ordered that the case stay on course for a trial in May.
“All deadlines shall remain in place,” U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright said in an order that let Joseph Cammarata and Gilbert K. Davis quit as Jones’ lawyers.
New attorneys for Jones have yet to emerge.
The two lawyers said in papers filed Monday that they had “fundamental differences of opinion” with Jones about how the case should proceed.
Clinton’s attorneys, led by Robert S. Bennett, said they were ready to move toward a trial.
The request by Jones’ lawyers to leave the case came after she rejected settlement terms that her spokeswoman said the lawyers had pushed: $700,000 and a vague statement of regret from the president for any damage to Jones’ reputation.
Jones claims Clinton propositioned her at a Little Rock hotel in 1991 when he was governor and she was a state employee.
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