Earlier today, Clinton & Peed filed an amicus brief as local counsel for nearly a dozen former judges and senior legal officials in support of the government’s proposed trial date and schedule in the criminal case against Donald Trump pending in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia alleging criminal interference in the 2020 election. The brief opposes the attempt by former President Trump’s legal team to postpone the trial until after the election.
In yet another victory for our client, a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously affirmed the dismissal of an indictment against C&P client Paul Guertin, a decorated former Foreign Service Officer.
For eight years running, Washington DC SuperLawyers Magazine has selected founding partner Tim Clinton to its list of "Super Lawyers." Clinton and partner Matt Peed were first selected for inclusion in the list of "Rising Stars" for 2014 and 2015; and partner Alec Rosenberg was selected for inclusion in the “SuperLawyers” lists of 2014 and 2015, before Clinton was first named to the “SuperLawyers” list in 2016.
After a one-day jury trial in the Eastern District of Virginia before Judge Leonie Brinkema, Clinton & Peed has a secured a judgment worth up to $2.7 million for the estate of John (“Jack”) C. West, Jr., a South Carolina lawyer who represented the individuals taken and held hostage from the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran, during the period from November 1979 through January 1981.
Clinton & Peed Of Counsel Susan Simpson’s investigative work has now resulted in the release of a fifth wrongfully convicted man from prison. Back in October 2020, we posted the New York Times profile of Simpson and the sixth season of her podcast Undisclosed. This is an update to that story. After more than two decades in prison, retired Marine and former police officer Jeff Titus—the subject of Undisclosed’s sixth season—was been released from prison earlier this morning.
The D.C. Court of Appeals granted the appeal filed by Clinton & Peed, reversing the trial court’s decision dismissing its client’s claims on summary judgment. In its ruling for U Hall, the Court adopted the most tenant-favorable argument, announcing new law that should help future commercial tenants facing similar problems. Specifically, the “court[] adopt[ed] a more liberal view, as U Hall ask[ed] [it] to do, invoking equitable principles to enforce options whose prices are to be fixed at a later date.” Under this view, “when a lease contains an option provision that leaves the rental price for the option year(s) to be agreed upon at a later date, a court can infer that the parties would have agreed on a reasonable rental price for each option term.”