Category: Case Lawyer

Trump lawyer Joe Tacopina’s arguments on hush-money case, explained

Comment on this storyCommentsFew Americans in modern history have run through a series of lawyers as colorful — and often, of such dubious reliability — as Donald Trump.And now we have a new entry in a long succession: Joe Tacopina.In appearances on ABC News, Fox News and MSNBC this week, the high-profile criminal defense lawyer rather enthusiastically laid out Trump’s defense against a potentially imminent criminal charge in Manhattan. In the course of doing so, though, Tacopina lodged a series of questionable claims about the case.The potential charges apparently deal with the $130,000 hush-money payment that…Continue Reading

What is Communication & modes of Communication under the Indian Contract Act?

According to Section 2(h) of the Indian Contract Act 1872, An agreement enforceable by law is a contract. Before a contract comes into existence the promisor has to signify his willingness and a promise has to signify his assent. It, therefore, becomes necessary to explain what is meant by such signification and what should be the mode of the same. To bring into notice the willingness or assent of the parties to enter into a contract one needs to communicate. This mode of communication can be postal or instantaneous. Section 3 of the Indian Contract Act states that communication can…Continue Reading

Trump lawyer ordered to testify in classified documents case in landmark ruling, sources say

Evan Corcoran has been ordered to testify, piercing attorney-client privilege.A federal judge has ruled that a lawyer for former President Donald Trump must provide additional testimony before a federal grand jury investigating Trump’s handling of classified documents, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News. Special counsel Jack Smith’s prosecutors asked Judge Beryl Howell last month to pierce attorney-client privilege and compel Trump attorney Evan Corcoran to appear before a grand jury, sources previously told ABC News. The Justice Department made the request on the basis of the crime-fraud exception, sources said, which allows for claims of attorney-client privilege…Continue Reading

Trump lawyer ordered to give additional testimony in documents case | Donald Trump

Donald Trump’s main lawyer involved in turning over classified-marked documents at the Mar-a-Lago resort to the justice department last year must provide additional testimony in the criminal investigation, a federal judge ruled on Friday, overriding his objections of attorney-client privilege .The ruling marks a major moment in the investigation into Trump’s unauthorized retention of national security materials and obstruction of justice that could open up new avenues of information to the special counsel overseeing the matter. In a sealed ruling, the chief US judge for the District of Columbia, Beryl Howell, found that the justice department had shown sufficient…Continue Reading

Who is Joe Tacopina, Donald Trump’s New Lawyer?

Photo: Rashid Umar AbbasiIn January, trial attorney Joe Tacopina flew from his Connecticut home to Florida to meet Donald Trump, who was in need of more lawyers to represent him in a year of astonishing legal exposure. At first, Trump and his advisers wanted to scatter his attention across multiple fronts. “I said, ‘Guys, I’m not going to be involved in ten cases,’” Tacopina explained. “When we get involved with someone, we do a deep dive.” He did some triage and decided the most pressing case was the one brought by E. Jean Carroll. After a couple of meals…Continue Reading

Ex-prosecutor warns Trump to get a new lawyer over potential “conflict of interest” in Stormy case

Stormy Daniels, whose hush-money payment is at the center of the ongoing Manhattan investigation into former President Donald Trump, handed over communications between her and Trump’s lawyer to District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office on Wednesday, according to CNN. The communications between her and Joe Tacopina are said to date back to 2018, when Daniels was seeking legal representation. Her lawyer, Clark Brewster, said Daniels had disclosed confidential information to Tacopina about her situation involving the former president. This has raised questions as to whether the attorney could be sidelined from his defense of Trump in the hush money case. “[The…Continue Reading

Why a Trump lawyer was ordered to turn over evidence in the docs case

Attorney-client privilege is an important legal principle, which is protected in nearly all instances, but it is not absolute. As the criminal investigation into Donald Trump’s classified documents scandal advances, the former president and his team are discovering that those limits can be highly problematic. The New York Times reported overnight:A federal appeals court ruled on Wednesday that a lawyer representing former President Donald J. Trump in the investigation into his handling of classified material had to answer a grand jury’s questions and give prosecutors documents related to his legal work. The ruling by the US Court of Appeals…Continue Reading

Trump Lawyer Ordered to Turn Over Mar-a-Lago Case Documents

(WASHINGTON) — A federal appeals court in a sealed order Wednesday directed a lawyer for Donald Trump to turn over to prosecutors documents in the investigation into the former president’s retention of classified records at his Florida estate. The ruling is a significant win for the Justice Department, which has focused for months not only on the hoarding of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago but also on why Trump and his representatives resisted demands to return them to the government. It suggests the court has sided with prosecutors who have argued behind closed doors that Trump was using his legal representation…Continue Reading