It took her parents nine years to hook up with Moore, a medical malpractice lawyer.

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Earlier this month, when Lewinsky dumped the loquacious California medical-malpractice lawyer William Ginsburg and hired a pair of Washington sharpies, Plato Cacheris and Jake Stein, many observers assumed it meant she was getting ready to cooperate.

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"It's beyond me why Bingham wanted to put all this on a public stage in the first place, and then to lose in such a resounding and predictable fashion, it just looks even worse, " said Charles Kazarian, a legal-malpractice lawyer in Boston.

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