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The Leon Black Legal Saga Ad Absurdum

The former Apollo executive has defeated all but one of the misconduct allegations against him—an increasingly surreal case involving a client who has been dropped by her lawyers and is now at war with their firm.

Leon Black
On April 23, the Jane Doe case against Leon Black took another bizarre twist. In a letter to Judge Clarke, Jane Doe, now representing herself, asked for additional time beyond May 23 to respond to Leon’s motion to dismiss. Photo: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg/Getty Images
William D. Cohan
April 27, 2025

Big corporate law firms, such as Paul Weiss and Skadden Arps, have suffered their share of slings and arrows during Trump II, as the president has waged a war of retribution against them for, essentially, being lawyers. Then there are the trials and tribulations of Wigdor LLP, the small Manhattan firm that has made a business, in part, out of representing alleged sexual assault victims.