Harvey Weinstein Trying To Hire A 'Skirt' Lawyer To Represent Him

Step 1 is probably not calling them 'skirts,' but what do I know.

Harvey Weinstein entering court without ‘skirt’ lawyers. (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)

People around Harvey [Weinstein] are saying he’s desperately trying to hire a ‘skirt’ — their term — for the [legal] team as he feels it will soften his image.

—A New York Post inside source tells the paper Harvey Weinstein is looking to hire an additional woman lawyer to add to his legal team of Jose Baez and Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. after Pamela Mackey left the team last month. Mackey reportedly left Weinstein’s defense team after a dispute over her fees.