NEW YORK (Reuters) The resort maid whom Dominique Strauss-Kahn is actually accused associated with sexually assaulting has added two attorneys that will the girl authorized staff because your woman accepts a doable city action, that personal injury attorney previously representing the girl said.
Kenneth Thompson, your former helper U.S. attorney with New York, as well as Norman Siegel, a ex - director from the New York Civil Liberties Union, took part in a very meeting when using the lady and her spouse and children on Wednesday afternoon.
"They decided make requires enhanced representation," Jeffrey Shapiro, exactly who ended up the women's only attorney right until now, informed Reuters later on Wednesday. One cause of adding the actual lawyers had been to be able to determine "whether there's a city instance going forward," he / she said.
Strauss-Kahn has been billed together with sexually assaulting and also working to rape this maid in the upscale Sofitel Hotel around New York on May 14. He was travel on the International Monetary Fund plus had happen to be regarded as your contender with France's presidential contest right up until that experience took place.
Shapiro explained every civil activity against Strauss-Kahn or every other blowout would need to often be archived inside of twelve months with the incident. If filed while the jail case against Strauss-Kahn is pending, it might likely be spent the nights right up until your arrest case is definitely concluded, he said.
The not one but two legal representatives were included with the actual group for the urging of male relatives, Shapiro said. There had been zero conversation of the civil suit previous to Wednesday, he / she said.
Thompson, someone during Thompson Wigdor & Gilly within New York, efficiently prosecuted New York police representatives arrested involving brutality against Abner Louima in 1997. Siegel, who headed the particular New York Civil Liberties Union out of 1985 that will 2000, will be in private train around New York.
(Reporting by simply Leigh Jones; Editing by simply Eddie Evans and Peter Cooney)
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