EXCLUSIVE: Oksana's Family Lawyer Quits Before Crucial Deposition
Posted on Oct 25, 2010 @ 01:15PM
Oksana Grigorieva’s legal team is in crisis after her top family law attorney suddenly quit the case before a critical deposition, RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned.
Mitchell Jacobs — a family law attorney who has been a Board Certified Family Law Specialist since 1986 — handed in his resignation on Sunday afternoon, citing frustration with some of the Russian musician’s other legal advisors.
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It is a brutal blow to Oksana, 40, who is scheduled to be questioned in another deposition on Thursday.
Oksana has claimed her former lover, Oscar winning actor Mel Gibson, punched her in the face while she held their infant daughter Lucia.
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“Oksana is flipping out that she has lost Mitchell, who she wanted and needed to call upon during what is shaping to be a very important deposition,” a source close to Oksana told RadarOnline.com.
Team Oksana is now without a family law specialist, while its lead attorney, Martin Garbus, is still unable to practice law in California, as RadarOnline.com was first to report.
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Garbus, the famed defense attorney in the Pentagon Papers case, had filed a pro hac vice motion in court last Thursday -- a move that would have admitted the New York-based lawyer to practice in the Californian jurisdiction.
But the judge overseeing the case in a Los Angeles court rejected the motion.
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Said the source: “Martin is unable to represent Oksana at her next deposition and this is causing her great concern and worry. She needs her legal team -- and a specialist advisor in family law -- now more than ever."
Jacobs replaced high powered Hollywood attorney Sorrell Trope, who Oksana sacked, after he and his firm clashed with her team of Garbus and Daniel Horowitz about strategy.
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Jacobs has not returned RadarOnline.com's request for comment.
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The Daily Juice
Oct 26, 2010 @ 06:55
You are going to pay Oksana. The meanness you've done is coming back to you as a boomerang. How are you going to live among the people which you hate?
Posted Tue, 10/26/2010 - 4:49am
You are going to pay Oksana. The meanness you've done is coming back to you like a boomerang. How are you going to live among the people which you hate?
Posted Tue, 10/26/2010 - 4:47am
I get the feeling Oksana is first and foremost interested in her "music career" over and above the welfare of her daughter.
Posted Mon, 10/25/2010 - 10:59pm
NOW you get the picture just one thing Wrong - have you EVER listened to her sing? She is a nasal-singer. She has 2 good vids, (prod. by Mel) I highly advise MUTE if you watch it. Vid's are awesome (thx Mel) audio sounds like feed time for swines.
Posted Mon, 10/25/2010 - 11:45pm
Sorrell Trope is the Gold Standard, if he cannot work with someone...no one can. It's Oksana and her
fame-ho lawyers like her. Bloom is covering her mother's ass on many points. Ask Violet.
Posted Mon, 10/25/2010 - 8:46pm
Feel bad for her. Mel has legal teams attacking at every side and she had lawyers with competing egos. Hopefully someone will come stand up for her.
Posted Mon, 10/25/2010 - 7:17pm
She is in charge of her attorneys. She calls the shots. Nobody else. They work for her.
Posted Mon, 10/25/2010 - 7:56pm
Never heard (W)Horowitz described as one of the best attys... And Bloom is nothing but an ambulance chasing publicity hound (like mother, like daughter).
Posted Mon, 10/25/2010 - 6:44pm
It's not Oksana that is going through lawyers. She has some of the best lawyers in this country working for her that are tripping over each other's egos! This has nothing to do with her and everything to do with THAT.
Posted Mon, 10/25/2010 - 6:38pm
Totally agree.
Posted Mon, 10/25/2010 - 7:17pm