October 25, 2024
A Willkie pro bono team has been recognized by The AmLaw Litigation Daily with a “Shout Out” for the latest development in Willkie’s ongoing representation of pro bono clients and former Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss.
On October 22, Judge Lewis J. Liman of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ordered Rudy Giuliani to surrender his apartment and other assets to Ms. Freeman and Ms. Moss to begin to satisfy the $148.1 million defamation verdict a Willkie pro bono team and co-counsel Protect Democracy secured on their behalf in 2023. Giuliani was ordered to transfer most of his personal property, including cash accounts, jewelry and valuables, a legal claim for unpaid attorneys’ fees, and his interest in his Madison Avenue co-op apartment, to a receivership within seven days.
The turnover order is the latest victory for Willkie’s clients in their yearslong effort to hold Giuliani accountable for spreading lies that Ms. Freeman and Ms. Moss had intentionally undermined the results of the 2020 presidential election.
The Willkie team that secured the asset turnover and enforcement of the judgment against Giuliani was led by counsel Aaron Nathan and partner Michael Gottlieb, and included partner Meryl Governski and associates M. Annie Houghton-Larsen, J. Tyler Knoblett, Lily Grisafi, Alexis Dorner, Perri Haser and Maggie MacCurdy. Willkie was joined by a team from Protect Democracy led by John Langford.
Learn more about the case here.
On October 22, Judge Lewis J. Liman of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ordered Rudy Giuliani to surrender his apartment and other assets to Ms. Freeman and Ms. Moss to begin to satisfy the $148.1 million defamation verdict a Willkie pro bono team and co-counsel Protect Democracy secured on their behalf in 2023. Giuliani was ordered to transfer most of his personal property, including cash accounts, jewelry and valuables, a legal claim for unpaid attorneys’ fees, and his interest in his Madison Avenue co-op apartment, to a receivership within seven days.
The turnover order is the latest victory for Willkie’s clients in their yearslong effort to hold Giuliani accountable for spreading lies that Ms. Freeman and Ms. Moss had intentionally undermined the results of the 2020 presidential election.
The Willkie team that secured the asset turnover and enforcement of the judgment against Giuliani was led by counsel Aaron Nathan and partner Michael Gottlieb, and included partner Meryl Governski and associates M. Annie Houghton-Larsen, J. Tyler Knoblett, Lily Grisafi, Alexis Dorner, Perri Haser and Maggie MacCurdy. Willkie was joined by a team from Protect Democracy led by John Langford.
Learn more about the case here.
