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Subject: Law360; Dershowitz Can Pursue Bid To DQ Boles Schiller In Sex Case 
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 20:29:48 +0000 
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Dershowitz Can Pursue Bid To DQ Boies Schiller In 
Sex Case 
By Andrew Strickler 
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Law360 (June 18, 2019, 6:13 PM EDT) -- The New York federal judge who initially refused to hear Alan Dershowitz's 
request to disqualify Boies Schiller Flexner LLP from representing a woman accusing the prominent attorney and retired 
Harvard Law School professor of sexually molesting her said on Monday that she would consider it. 
In a brief order, U.S. District Judge Loretta A. Preska allowed Dershowitz's motion to be reinstated and said he could file a 
28-page memo on his request. 
The order comes a week after Judge Preska said she was removing the motion because Dershowitz didn't request a 
premotion conference before the filing in violation of a court rule. 
Dershowitz's accuser, 
has alleged that convicted billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein "lent her out for 
sex" to Dershowitz and that Dershowitz played a role as Epstein's attorney and friend in a human trafficking  scheme 
during the late 1990s and early 2000s involving dozens of underage girls. 
In a July 7 motion, Dershowitz argued that Boies Schiller shouldn't be allowed to continue to represent 
because 
the firm has "severe" conflicts in the case. 
Those stem from an offer made in 2015 by Boies Schiller partner Carlos Sires to represent Dershowitz after 
alleged 
in a separate Crime Victims Rights Act suit focused on Epstein's deal with prosecutors that she had sex with ers owitz 
and others. 
Dershowitz said in his motion he didn't learn Boies Schiller was representing his accuser in the current case until after he 
shared with Sires a "highly confidential" memo spelling out his legal strategy in the case. The next day, Sires informed 
Dershowitz that a client conflict was going to prevent him from representing Dershowitz. 
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