Jones’ Lawyers Say Predecessors Deserve Zero
Paula Corbin Jones’ lawyers say her original legal team abandoned her case and is not entitled to any part of the $850,000 that President Clinton paid to settle her sexual harassment lawsuit.
Lawyers Joseph Cammarata and Gilbert K. Davis, who successfully argued to the U.S. Supreme Court that Clinton should stand trial while still in office, are seeking $875,000 in fees and expenses.
Jones’ most recent lawyers, the Dallas law firm of Rader, Campbell, Fisher & Pyke, said in a court filing Tuesday that Cammarata and Davis cannot make a valid claim to the money.
In response, Davis said he and Cammarata were far more effective for Jones than the Dallas firm.
“It’s pretty much an absurd allegation that they made. Everything we touched, we won. Everything they touched, they lost,” Davis said.
Cammarata and Davis said they left the case after Jones refused their advice to accept a settlement offer that included $700,000 and a vague apology.
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