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Dershowitz's Motion To Disqualify Boies Schiller Immediately Dumped For Hilarious Reason

Swing and a miss.

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Oops.

Well, that was fast. No sooner did Alan Dershowitz move to get Boies Schiller removed from the Virginia Guiffre case than the motion dies a fiery — if potentially temporary — death at the stroke of Judge Loretta Preska’s pen.

Apparently, no one on the Harvard Law professor’s side of the table thought to check Judge Preska’s individual rules (a phenomenon that seems to be going around), which are quite clear that:

(a) “For motions other than discovery motions, a pre-motion conference with the court is required before making any motion” and
(b) “Unless prior permission has been granted, memoranda of law in support of and in opposition to motions are limited to 20 pages”

Dershowitz’s filing failed on… both of these counts. Cue the sad trombone.

Undeterred, his attorneys are now asking belatedly for a pre-motion conference to rehash the complaints that Boies Schiller attorneys will be fact witnesses in the case because Dershowitz intends to claim that they’re trying to extort him by representing the plaintiff. Or something like that.

If I were Dershowitz though, I’d be concerned that Judge Preska will allow the motion to go forward without staying the deadline for him to answer or move to dismiss. That’s a deadline that should be coming up and one that he was apparently trying to avoid by bringing this disqualification motion.

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You can read the judge’s letter on the next page.

Earlier: Harvard Law School’s Dershowitz Moves To Disqualify Boies Schiller In Sex Trafficking Case

HeadshotJoe Patrice is a senior editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer. Feel free to email any tips, questions, or comments. Follow him on Twitter if you’re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news. Joe also serves as a Managing Director at RPN Executive Search.

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