Johnny Depp’s hotshot lawyer Camille Vasquez was promoted to companion at her ritzy regulation agency Tuesday, lower than per week after her victorious efficiency within the actor’s courtroom battle towards Amber Heard.
The 37-year-old legal professional — who was solely an affiliate at Brown Rudnick when the drawn-out defamation trial started — turned its breakout star because of her intense and typically vicious cross-examination of Heard and her compelling closing arguments.
“We're delighted to welcome Camille to the partnership,” William Baldiga, chairman and CEO of Brown Rudnick, stated in a press launch Tuesday. “Traditionally, we have now reserved this announcement for the top of our fiscal 12 months. However Camille’s efficiency through the Johnny Depp trial proved to the world that she was able to take this subsequent step now.
“We're extremely pleased with her and look ahead to what she is going to accomplish as our latest companion.”
Sources advised The Put up on Sunday that Vasquez was on the middle of a bidding warfare between regulation corporations that needed her on their groups, and that she was being flooded with affords from Hollywood.
In a press release, the tough-as-nails legal professional stated she was “delighted that Brown Rudnick has given me its full vote of confidence.”
“I’m pleased with the uniquely proficient staff I’ve had the privilege to steer, which exemplified teamwork and collaboration, and I look ahead to persevering with to characterize Brown Rudnick’s tradition of excellence,” she stated.
Some authorized consultants stated they have been stunned that Brown Rudnick had given Vasquez such a outstanding function on Depp’s authorized staff when she was solely an affiliate.
Vasquez and her colleagues satisfied the jury that Heard defamed Depp on all three counts introduced towards the actress for writing in a 2018 Washington Put up op-ed that she was “a public determine representing home abuse.”
A girl companion at a high-profile regulation agency in Los Angeles just some years older than Vasquez advised The Put up on Sunday that she was “very stunned to see she was an affiliate,” contemplating what she dealt with on the Depp trial.
“More often than not associates aren’t given the kind of roles she was given — doing the cross and closings, that’s fairly unprecedented,” the supply stated.
For the reason that verdict got here down on June 1, Vasquez has additionally acquired affords from a number of conventional TV networks and cable channels, sources have stated.
“Expertise brokers are circling Camille as a result of they acknowledge that she is the unicorn — a wise, savvy, poised legal professional whose impactful efficiency through the trial propelled her to a uncommon stage of visibility,” a supply stated. “And the truth that she is a lady of shade is an added bonus.”
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