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Paula Jones' lawyers get lion's share of $850,000 settlement
March 5, 1999 LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (AllPolitics, March 5) -- The bulk of the $850,000 settlement in Paula Jones' sexual harassment case against President Clinton will go toward attorneys' fees, while Jones will collect $200,000, according to one of the attorneys. The money was paid in November but held up by the courts when Jones' former and current lawyers could not agree on how it should be split up. The agreement was noted but not detailed in an order entered in federal court Thursday. The Rutherford Institute, which assisted Jones in her lawsuit, will also collect a share of the settlement. Lawyer Joseph Cammarata said that he and fellow attorney Gilbert Davis would get $350,000. They represented Jones in the earlier stages of the case. Cammarata said he was satisfied with the agreement, which promises them money from future earnings Jones expects to make. The Dallas law firm of Rader, Campbell, Fisher & Pyke will get $283,000. That firm took the case after Cammarata and Davis withdrew from the case. The Rutherford Institute is to get $100,000, Cammarata said. In her lawsuit, Mrs. Jones claimed that Clinton, when he was governor of Arkansas, made a crude advance in a room at a Little Rock hotel in 1991. Clinton denies the accusation. The case was dismissed in April. While that dismissal was on appeal, Clinton and Mrs. Jones settled. Still to be resolved in the Jones-Clinton case is whether the judge will cite Clinton for contempt of court because of his conflicting testimony about his relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. After former and current lawyers began to argue over who would get how much, the judge ordered the check held by the court until the dispute was resolved. The Associated Press contributed to this report. |
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