In their latest strategy for defeating a libel lawsuit, lawyers for the American Bar Association and its monthly magazine, the ABA Journal, are asking a federal judge to declare that attorney Richard Sprague is a public figure as a result of a career chock-full of high profile cases.
“Mr. Sprague’s conscious decision to accept high-profile engagements and to lead a public life has turned him into a public figure in the Philadelphia area, as well as the local and national legal communities,” attorneys David H. Marion, Joyce S. Meyers, Michael A. Twersky and Jeanette Melendez Bead of Montgomery McCracken wrote.
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