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Trump's legal team adds 'pit bull' NYC lawyer to fight porn star - ABC News

posted onMarch 9, 2018
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Article snippet: President Donald Trump has added yet another lawyer in his outside legal team -– New York attorney Lawrence S. Rosen, multiple sources tell ABC News. Rosen has been brought in by Trump's longtime personal attorney, Michael Cohen, to handle the legal issues surrounding the so-called "hush" agreement that Cohen negotiated with the adult film actress known as Stormy Daniels, according to three people familiar with the arrangement. Rosen, a partner in the firm LaRocca, Hornick, Rosen, Greenberg & Blaha, is a "pit bull" who will "aggressively fight and use his rhetorical and writing skills to get you a win," according to the firm's website. The firm is based out of The Trump Building on Wall Street in Manhattan's financial district. According to the law firm's website, Rosen represents companies and "high net worth individuals in a myriad of areas of business and commerce," and also serves as an economic development official for his New Jersey hometown. The dispute over the agreement with Daniels heated up this week, after she filed suit in Los Angeles over the validity of the contract that paid her $130,000 in exchange for remaining silent about her relationship with Trump. Her lawyer, Michael Avenatti, told ABC News this week that because Trump never signed the contract, he does not believe his client needs to honor it. The hush agreement refers to Daniels throughout as "Peggy Peterson" or "PP" and Trump as "David Dennison" or "DD" in the copy of t... Link to the full article to read more

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