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All right, someone please explain to me… Wouldn’t John’s lawyers be his legal department at Basic Black? Since the alligations here are against Basic Black and not John, he would not be using personal attornies. That would mean the entire legal team would have all left the company and, in itself, would be a very suspicious move on their part (which I’m certain the SEC would also investigate; that would cast some major suspicion on an outside influence and weigh very heavily in John’s favor).
Only being employees of the corporation, it would be no skin off their nose either way whether John is convicted, their job would still go on. I can’t see Carrie, a new lawyer, fresh off the bar examination (in another country, no less) handling this case. And, if she does will Justin join the battle? I’m sure she’s going to need all the help she can get.
Frankie (if I remember correctly he was a Washington legal eagle the last time he was on) on to help Carrie.
lawyers had been with him for years. I just assumed that meant they were involved with Basic Black; but, that may not be the case.
Agree about the legal team but I took it as the entire team quit, not just the individual ones handling his case. As far as Carrie, she’s a defense attorney but we have no idea how long she’s been working (could have taken those accellerated speed courses like the medical schools everyone seems to go to) or where they’ve been living. We just assumed they were still in Switzerland but yesterday Austin was talking about all the places they’ve been since leaving Salem. Also with all that they’ve done BEFORE they both went back to school and only being married and gone 5 years when did Carrie have time to go to law school or was it a coorespondence course?
I know nit picky but at least they didn’t leave last month or last year and come back with these high profile jobs.
whether they were in-house counsel, or an outside law firm, if Basic Black and John, individually, have been the legal team in place for years, as Marlena stated, I don’t believe they can just pick up their legal briefs and quit without first petitioning the court to have themselves removed (and they have to persuade the court that their reasoning are sound) and that they may have been deliberately misled, lied to, had information withheld by their client, and that does not seem to be the case here if he has been with this legal team for years, as stated. Like John said, this had to be done by someone with a great deal of power; someone who has the law in his/per pocket and could act this quickly to have John’s legal team removed.
There are corporate lawyers who work with the corporation but the CEO would still have his personal lawyers for other matters. I worked for several Fortune 100 firms, and each of them had a legal teams that work representing the corporation, but the execs all had their own personal lawyers. I’m not sure which they were referring to on Days – the Basic Black legal team or his personal legal team.
The case is against John as an individual, not Basic Black. So I assumed it was his personal lawyers and not Basic Black Lawyers.
John didn’t personally lose all that money, it was the corporation he is the head of. Since you can’t sue a corporation, you have to sue the individual who is responsible for it.
I think it would be very unusual for a CEO’s personal attorney to represent him in a corporate case. S/he could be working in the background but I don’t think an individual would want to pay for a legal defense out of his own pocket when the company should be handling it.
Now that I read the team DID petition the court to withdraw, I can better buy them quitting. But it certainly would throw a tremendous amount of suspicion on them. And I hope they are somehow involved instead of the Dimeras. Geeze, the Dimeras can’t be responsible for every single evil that happens, can they?
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