Cochran Says Lewinsky Camp Approached Him

Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., who became a media star as O.J. Simpson’s defense lawyer, said Sunday he was approached as a possible attorney for Monica S. Lewinsky but “indicated quickly” he wasn’t interested.

On ABC’s “This Week,” Cochran said someone outside Lewinsky’s family telephoned to ask whether he would be interested in representing the former White House intern, whose alleged affair with President Clinton is the subject of a grand jury investigation.

“I indicated quickly that I was not, and that was the end of it,” said Cochran, who won an acquittal for Simpson in the former football player’s 1995 criminal trial on charges he murdered his wife and a friend.

Cochran called the new attorneys, Jacob Stein and Plato Cacheris, “a great improvement” over her previous lawyer, William H. Ginsburg, a Los Angeles medical malpractice specialist.