Steven Donziger, the American lawyer who spent more than two decades suing Chevron Corp over pollution in the Ecuadorian rainforest, may have to be represented by his ex-lawyer in a trial for criminal contempt in Manhattan federal court slated to begin in less than two weeks, a judge ruled on Friday.
Senior U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska ordered Donziger’s former lead defense attorney, Andrew Frisch of Schlam Stone & Dolan, to take the reins after the court disqualified two of Donziger’s attorneys and if another two continue to decline or are unable to appear.
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