LORD CONRAD BLACK, the deposed CEO of newspaper conglomerate Hollinger Inc., has turned to an unlikely courtroom duo for help with his criminal trial, which started Wednesday. Black’s defense pairs Canadian Edward Greenspan with Edward Genson, a man who knows the Chicago courthouses the way Harry Caray knew the bars in Wrigleyville. Although they could not be more dissimilar in style and appearance, their careers have tracked eerily similar paths to the Black case.
After a 2003 internal inquiry at Hollinger alleged that Black and other executives paid themselves millions of dollars without board approval, Black called on Greenspan, a law school classmate in the early ’60s and arguably Canada’s most famous lawyer.
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