Michael Avenatti, Stormy Daniels’ lawyer, is everywhere these days. In the last few months he has practically become a regular on MSNBC, especially Lawrence O’Donnell’s, The Last Word.
If you didn’t know any better, you might think Avenatti is some off-Broadway bit player who suddenly got his big shot on the Great White Way thanks to his high-profile client, Miss Daniels.
You’d be wrong!
Michael Avenatti is considered one of the top trial lawyers in the country, having built a reputation as an aggressive litigator through many noteworthy cases across the land. He has brought lawsuits against the National Football League, various celebrity defendants, including Paris Hilton and Jim Carrey, athletes, high-ranking business executives and Fortune 100 companies.
Avenatti’s website claims he has been responsible, as lead counsel, for over $1 Billion in verdicts and settlements, including many well in excess of $10,000,000.
The now ubiquitous attorney is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, making him a fellow alumnus with Donald Trump! Avenatti went on to attend the law school at George Washington University, graduating Order of the Coif, first in his class.
In an alternate universe, Avenatti would be Trump’s lawyer, not one who has initiated two lawsuits against him. Avenatti is bold, brash, self-confident and fearless … just the kind of qualities Trump likes.
But Avenatti is saddled with one trait that Trump seems to shy away from… brains.
Trump’s lawyers, whichever ones are still left representing him, are mostly a subservient group who cannot control their client. No matter the sound legal advice given him, Donald Trump wants to call the shots, legal wisdom be damned.
Thanks to Stormy Daniels and her lawsuits against Trump, Michael Avenatti has made his way out of the insular world of the legal community and into primetime.
No doubt Avenatti’s stock has increased dramatically thanks to one Donald J. Trump. Don’t expect Avenatti to fade into the woodwork anytime soon.
When it comes to Trump, I picture Avenatti repeating, in his mind, the words made famous by George M. Cohan … “my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you!”
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