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Teny Geragos Is Ready for the Post-MeToo Era

Teny Geragos Is Ready for the Post-MeToo Era

Well, what I opened on is that there wasn’t going to be one overall incentive for all of them, and I still don’t—you don’t see, like, one overarching incentive. Money is always an incentive for people, and jurors take a really hard look at that. In the Alexander trial, the vast majority were allowed to testify under full pseudonyms. So they were allowed to come in under a name that wasn’t their own and swear on an oath.… To me, it was such an erosion of the presumption of innocence and an erosion of our process. One of Weinstein’s previous attorneys during his first trial in 2020 was Donna Rotunno. When Vanity Fair ran a profile of her tied to the trial, the headline was “Who Would Defend Harvey Weinstein?” Now it’s like, lots of people. That’s amazing. She was also on the cover of Chicago magazine as “the anti–Gloria Allred.” I love that. Why? I think—as the anti–Gloria Allred—in many ways what she has done is incredible for women; I have to put that …