Judges across the country have repeatedly called out Justice Department lawyers for violating their orders and even for destroying the bonds of trust that the government has traditionally been afforded in court.
With a national profile, he represented the notorious and the celebrated, helping to secure an acquittal in the Smith rape case and a lenient plea deal for Jeffrey Epstein.
Roy Black spoke to the news media outside the Palm Beach County Courthouse in West Palm Beach in 1991 after his client William Kennedy Smith was acquitted of sexual assault charges.
He relished skewering the U.S. government as he represented unpopular defendants in public corruption and national security cases, like those at Guantánamo.
Solo practitioners, former government litigators and small law offices stepped up to help challenge the Trump administration’s agenda in court after the White House sought to punish many big firms.
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