Trump campaign lawyer says she’s being harassed

Bloomberg

An attorney working for President Donald Trump’s campaign on an election lawsuit said
she’s being harassed for her work, including by a lawyer from a firm representing the state of Pennsylvania.
Linda Kerns, who leads her own law firm in Philadelphia, said in a court filing that an attorney with Kirkland & Ellis in Washington left her a one-minute voice mail that “falls afoul of standards of professional conduct.”
The lawsuit seeks to block Pennsylvania from certifying the election result unless thousands of ballots are tossed out. Another firm on the case, Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP, gave notice last week that it’s withdrawing from the matter. A Trump spokesman blamed that decision on harassment by “leftist mobs,” after the Lincoln Project targeted lawyers working for the campaign.
Kerns also said in the filing that she “has been subjected to continuous harassment in the form of abusive e-mails, phone calls, physical and economic threats, and even accusations of treason — all for representing the President of the United States’ campaign in this litigation.”
The case is one of several that the Trump campaign and the GOP have filed seeking to overturn President-election Joe Biden’s victory with unsubstantiated allegations of rampant voter fraud. A hearing on Pennsylvania’s motion to dismiss the suit is set for Tuesday.
Kirkland & Ellis’s lawyer on the matter apologised to Kerns and told her that the attorney who left the voice mail doesn’t work on the Pennsylvania case. In her filing, Kerns said that’s “not good enough.” She asked the judge overseeing the case to issue an unspecified sanction against the firm.
In a response filed with the court, Kirkland & Ellis lawyer Daniel T Donovan said an associate was “acting unilaterally, in his personal capacity,” when he made the call. During the call, the associate provided Kerns with his personal email address while a baby was “babbling in the background.”
“We disagree with the characterisation of the voicemail in
the motion,” Donovan said. “The firm expects that every lawyer will conduct themselves with the highest standards of professional conduct, including being respectful of and courteous to other members of the bar.”