Out of work and nobody will hire him, reputation in shatters, legal problems . That #MAGA thingy is not working so well for Sean Spicer.
But the boot-licking SOB deserves it.
I would have thought there would be some sort of ethical guidelines discouraging Mead from representing multiple independent actors caught up in the same investigation. Any lawyers around? How is that handled in practice?
I don’t mean to impugn Mead’s honor, decency or commitment to his job, I only observe that he’s human. Trying to compartmentalize those different representations with a squishy human brain would seem all but impossible.
He’s going to sue the networks for not hiring him.
Exhibit A: Morning Joe.
This is so expected it has all the hallmarks of a non-story.
Now, when there’s a story about who Spicer’s lawyer’s lawyer is … #MAGA
Can a free lance bunny imitator afford high priced attorneys?
i thought the exact same thing. How can they advise client A when it might or might not effect client B. It would seem like a conflict.
People have an instinctual abhorrence of MAGATs.
Lamestream media likes to make a meal out of this nothingburger, but this is no different from when Joe Biden, Rahm Emmanuel, Greg Craig, Robert Bauer, David Plouffe, and Ellen Moran all had to hire personal lawyers due to a special counsel/grand jury investigation into Obummer’s campaign and White House.
Oh, wait, that never happened.
Personally, after 40 Years of legal practice, I wouldn’t do what he’s doing. I have a class action, for example, where I have five different class plaintiffs.
As required, I got consents from each one to Joint representation, but that is on the exact same case and there is little chance that the interests of the plaintiffs will conflict.
Even so, I don’t share with all the plaintiffs every word another one says, my point being that there are still issues of confidentiality, at least, even with the waiver.
Each of the clients here has a completely independent and different case from one another. The likelihood is very high that their interests diverge, even to the point of one client talking to Mueller about rolling over on the others. I mean, this sort of situation is just par for the course.
I haven’t looked at any of the case law under the applicable ethical rules, but the bottom line is that I don’t think the clients can give an effective waiver of conflicts that probably exist and that the client doesn’t understand at the time the waiver is requested.
At the same time, representing present and former officials from the Trump White House is becoming quite a cottage industry, it is very lucrative, and some lawyers don’t give a damn about the rules of ethics.
Spicer, in particular, needs his own lawyer. Do his Co - clients get to see his notebooks before Robert Muller does? Little problems like that.
“Spicer did not immediately respond on Tuesday to TPM’s requests for comment.”
Disappointed he didn’t threaten to report TPM “to the appropriate authorities.”
Put him on speed dial.
I applied for a job once and got pretty far into the process before I bailed—it seemed clear the guy I’d be working for was a jerk. One never knows, of course, but he’s since bounced around from position to position, and now occupies a fairly lowly one, and everywhere he went there was a lot of turnover. When I visited the office the first time I could tell—downcast, sullen, fearful expressions everywhere, no infield chatter, an obviously unhappy shop. Two other times I took jobs when I had strong misgivings. Each time was a total catastrophe. So Sean, babe, next time call, we’ll talk it over.
I think he should use the Sargent Schultz ¨I (saw) nothing¨ defense.
Judging from his press conferences, I´d believe him.
Sarah Huckabee-Sanders will be in her job for a long, long time - for better and for worse.
@carlosfiance “Look at me! Ray Charles could see that I’m a pathetic idiot!”
But he got to be on the Emmys 
Well yeah, but could possibly Sean have known that Trump was a world class jerk? Is not like you could have read in the papers and Doonesbury made a cartoon about it…
Yeah, I was wondering who those people were. Yahoo? AOL? Friendster?
Relax guys.
This attorney’s surely only representing him in the mini-fridge theft case perpetrated against the junior staffers.
Spicer seems like the kind of guy who’d keep maximally detailed notes about minimally important things.
If you think Spicer is in deep shit, think about Reince Priebus, he has all the same problems plus he has to watch his back in case Spicey wants to shoot him for getting him involved with trump.