Following the dismissal of corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, some clients expect their lawyers to leverage relationships with their most influential contacts and negotiate away the case. General discomfort around flouting a norm has led to a “cottage industry” of people who claim they have some sort of special access to officials that could speed resolution.
“It’s become readily apparent that a lot of clients and potential clients are hopeful that a lawyer, particularly a former senior government official from the last Trump administration, has the ability to leapfrog and skip normal process and thereby get faster and different results,” Bracewell’s Seth DuCharme, who served as principal associate deputy attorney general during the first Trump administration, told The AmLaw Litigation Daily.
