The CLE seminar that NMC yesterday described as “might be, um, interesting” . . . might not be all that. folo has just received the following statement, direct from Merkel & Cocke:
“Out of respect for the sponsoring organization and the legal profession, Charlie Merkel has withdrawn from participation in the Masters In Trial seminar lest his appearance on the program with Judge DeLaughter be turned into an unseemly spectacle or the feigned deference he would be obliged to show the judge in even a mock trial might be misinterpreted as condonation of the judge’s purported conduct.”
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