What exactly is the nature of the “legal representation”? Is there a lawsuit to which her client is a party? Is there a criminal charge against her client?
Can a political operative hide behind a spurious “attorney-client” privilege?
And who is paying her fees?
I don’t know the details of California Legal Ethics, but, generally speaking, the fee-payer is not covered by privilege, only the Client is. However, if the Client does not want the fee-payer’s name disclosed, it likely means her attorney cannot disclose it without violating the privilege.
Lawsuits and criminal charges are not required to create an attorney-client privilege. It is just the nature of the legal business. Gloria Allred likely can’t disclose anything without her Client’s authorization without risking her law license.
SnakeDoc
VanderHout and his ilk LOOK for people like ‘Nicky’ to further their means. This is the group he is part of. National Lawyers Guild’s Immigration Project.
They are as radical as it gets.
[snip] LA 8
Days after the 20th anniversary of the arrest of the so-called Los Angeles Eight, on January 31, Immigration Judge Bruce Einhorn ordered an end to deportation proceedings against Khader Hamide and Michel Shehadeh, members of the LA8. The government has been seeking to deport Hamide and Shehadeh since January 1987 based on their alleged support for the Popular Liberation Front for
Palestine (”PFLP”), a group within the Palestinian Liberation Organization. Judge Einhorn terminated the proceedings because the government’s refused to comply with his 2005 pre-trial order to turn over exculpatory evidence
regarding Hamide and Shehadh’s alleged support for the PFLP.
Guest – San Francisco attorney Marc Van Der Hout of the law firm of Van Der Hout, Brigagliano & Nightingale. Marc has been representing the LA8 on behalf of the National Lawyers Guild since the case began 20 years ago.
http://lawanddisorder.org/2007/02/
NLG: The Legal Fifth Column By: Jesse Rigsby
FrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, April 25, 2003
The National Lawyers Guild (NLG, also “the Guild”) embraces every anti-America, anti-capitalist, anti-war, anti-Israel, and “anti-imperialist” cause in vogue among the far left and declares itself “dedicated to the need for basic change in the structure of our political and economic system.” If this strikes the reader as a slight hint that the Guild’s underlying ideology is not exactly laissez-faire capitalism, that is because it is not. While the Guild is not officially communist or Marxist, its membership, leadership, past internal struggles, and adopted stances consistently point to an organization whose underlying convictions could best be described as such.
The Guild’s current organizational structure—forty-two local chapters grouped into nine regions—supports both decentralized operations on the regional level and a cohesive plan of attack on the national level. The Guild supports four national projects—the Center for Democratic Communications (CDC), the National Immigration Project, the National Police Accountability Project, and the Maurice and Jane Sugar Law Center for Economic and Social Justice—while twenty-one committees provide the Guild in-depth coverage of specific issues, including the death penalty, racism, sexism, Colombia, Cuba, the Middle East, immigration, illicit drugs, military law, prison law, LGBT (”lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender”) affairs, “mass defense,” labor and employment, and international affairs.
The Guild defended rioters and others involved in civil unrest as the 1960s progressed, and “helped” the U.S. war effort in Vietnam by encouraging young men to become draft evaders and then defending them. Guild lawyers were active in defending such “movement” participants as “demonstrators” arrested during the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention riots and members of the militant Black Panther Party in their many run-ins with law enforcement.
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http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=18513