Jones now claims that Martin agreed to accept his assistance and promised that Blank Rome, not Chapman, would pay his fee in exchange for access to Jones’s wisdom about the case against Chapman. Such an arrangement would be unusual but not entirely unheard of in a high-profile trial where a defendant is hard-pressed to pay mounting legal bills.
For their part, Blank Rome and Martin agree that Chapman wanted Jones added to the defense team, and did so to appease him. But Blank Rome says there never was any agreement that Jones would be paid, the firm itself certainly never agreed to pay him, and what little it did pay him was offered to satisfy other clients who had an interest in the outcome of the case against Chapman.
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