He had been mentioned as a possible successor to Weill before Prince, an able lawyer and long-time Weill associate, got the nod.

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By calling on the network of NGO workers he had helped as an interpreter in the squatted factory, he was able to get a volunteer lawyer to go into the camp and lodge an asylum claim.

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People who signed agreements are "salivating over the possibility of being able to make an attack, " says Jeffrey Cohen, a New York lawyer who has represented high-profile divorce clients including musician Lou Reed and author Joseph Heller.

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