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Avenatti, who has heightened anticipation for his client’s television appearance by dribbling out hints about major revelations, has linked his reputation to the Daniels case. It is another big bet for an attorney with an enormous appetite for risk whose roster of courthouse adversaries includes mega corporations, as well as celebrities such as Paris Hilton and Jim Carrey.
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Brian Panish, a prominent plaintiffs attorney who has worked on cases with Avenatti, compares his former colleague to William Ginsburg, Monica Lewinsky’s attorney famous for appearing on all the Sunday talk shows on the same day during President Bill Clinton’s White House intern sex scandal. It spawned the term “the full Ginsburg.”
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Avenatti was born in Sacramento, California, and lived as a young child in Utah and Colorado before the family settled in St. Louis, Missouri, in the midst of a hot 1982 baseball pennant race that turned him into a rabid Cardinals fan. His father worked as a liaison between wholesalers and the Anheuser Busch brewery.
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Avenatti says he’s been lead counsel on $1 billion worth of verdicts and settlements. The biggest, by far, came last year when he won a $454 million jury verdict in a case against Kimberly Clark and Halyard Health related to claims that the companies knowingly sold defective surgical gowns that were not impermeable to Ebola and HIV, despite representations that they were. It’s a decision that could generate more than $100 million in fees for Avenatti’s legal team if it holds up to planned appeals.
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“Timing is everything. I exited at the right time,” he says. “Basically, they’re just another client now.”.