Matthew Evan Corcoran, attorney for former adviser to Donald Trump Steve Bannon, arrives to federal court in Washington, D.C., US, on Friday, July 22, 2022. Photographer: Pete Kiehart/Bloomberg 'A Study in Contrasts:' Evan Corcoran, a Low-Key Former Prosecutor, Emerges as Key Trump Defender
M. Evan Corcoran, a partner at the Baltimore firm Silverman Thompson, is representing former President Donald Trump at a time when few respected lawyers will. The representation is fraught with reputational, and even legal, risks.
August 31, 2022 at 05:29 PM
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The original version of this story was published on National Law Journal
What You Need to Know
- M. Evan Corcoran, a partner at the Maryland firm Silverman Thompson, was taken on a central role in defending former President Donald Trump in the classified documents investigation.
- The role has put a former prosecutor described as low-key and reserved in the middle of an investigation with immense legal and political implications.
- The actions of Trump's lawyers have come under greater scrutiny after the Justice Department accused Trump attorneys of providing misleading information during the probe.
Around the time former President Donald Trump learned the FBI would examine a trove of sensitive documents he recently handed over to the National Archives, Trump turned to M. Evan Corcoran, a lawyer at the Baltimore firm Silverman, Thompson, Slutkin & White.
Corcoran was brought on as a member of Trump's legal team on an April conference call without even meeting the former president, The Washington Post reported, citing an unnamed source. Since joining the team, Corcoran, a former federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., has been the main point of contact for the U.S. Justice Department and National Archives over the handling of documents at Trump's private club, Mar-a-Lago, an investigation that has quickly transformed into a dire legal threat for the former president.
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