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Article: Act II, scene 1: Monica Lewinsky has assembled a new cast of attorneys. Can they head off a possible indictment?(includes related articles)
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- U.S. News & World Report
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- June 15, 1998
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The difference was immediately apparent. Upon taking over the legal defense of former White House intern Monica Lewinsky, attorneys Plato Cacheris and Jacob Stein appeared in front of a Washington, D.C., office building last Wednesday only long enough to provide a few moments of videotape for the evening news. Between them, they spoke no more than 30 words, the most substantive of which were Cacheris's "We hope we have a lot to bring to the table."
It was a striking contrast with the raucous, sound-bite-saturated press brief- ings favored by William Ginsburg, the flamboyant Los Angeles lawyer Stein and Cacheris were hired to replace. Ginsburg had played out his ...