Harvey Silverglate

He was a first-year professor.

I was a first-year student.

We both had Brooklyn accents and we hit it off.

We've been close friends ever since.

Yeah, he thought it was not so much an ethical law.

You have a right to represent mafia people.

But he didn't want to be house counsel.

He didn't want to have them ask him for advice in advance of what they were doing.

He was willing to represent somebody he wants, no matter how awful.

Klaus von Bulow was accused of killing his wife.

These are pretty nasty people.

But he didn't want to be house counsel to any of them.

Yes.

By the way, I co-authored it with my research assistant who's sitting right here.

Yes.

And...

I thought that the book was another example of the fact that everybody's entitled to a defense and that Allen's being involved with Trump was purely professional.

It was not political.

It was not philosophical.

And I thought that the fact that he was being criticized, he was being shunned because of his connection to Trump, I found very interesting.