When political strategist Roger Stone testified before the House Intelligence Committee Tuesday, he wasn't flanked by Big Law attorneys from Washington or New York. Instead, it was two South Floridians representing President Donald Trump's longtime confidant.

Fort Lauderdale attorneys Grant Smith and Robert Buschel have each known Stone for more than a decade. They agreed to prepare the radio show and columnist to be grilled on what he knew about WikiLeaks' release of hacked emails taken from the Democratic National Committee.

Smith, a solo practitioner, is a career-long government affairs lawyer who's worked for Stone on book publishing and consulting contracts. Buschel is with the two-lawyer firm Buschel & Gibbons and brings a criminal defense and litigation background to Stone's representation, which includes a civil case in the District of Columbia alleging Stone colluded with Russians to aid the Trump campaign.