Since a year and a half, in a black dress, sitting at the bottom of the room, James Verrecchia, the lawyer in history, Johnny Hallyday has been quietly attended to all the hearings of the estate of the rocker. Saying nothing, but noting the mistakes here and there of a strategy and the pleadings of the counsel of the widow of a rocker. Close the folder, feeling good that he wanted to play a more important role, but to convince Laeticia Hallyday leaving Ardavan Amir-Aslani, who managed its affairs for ten years, he knows all about the financial arrangements, no one believed it.

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And then finally if. After a succession of failures as well as before the courts French and american, Jacques Verrecchia has been successful. The Point announcement Friday that Laeticia Hallyday has changed lawyers. Jacques Verrecchia will represent Jade et Joy Hallyday. Their interests in this litigation are not the same as those of their mother. This decision is very strong symbolically: the lawyer of the father now protects the interests of his daughters. The lawyers of Laura Smet as those of David Hallyday are many times surprised that Jade and Joy are not to be defended independently. The us judges as well.

Soap opera with multiple plot twists

Jacques Verrecchia also comes in support of the new leader of the defense of Laeticia Hallyday: David Gordon-Krief. At age 55, this lawyer is known to be “very good” and very well prepare for its records, is a specialist in strategic litigation cases. A graduate of Columbia, this Parisian has lived in the United States, Israel, Italy, which is in this folder is a true asset.

If he failed to be elected chairman of the Council of the Order, it is extremely well established in all instances the ordinal. Candidate for the UMP party in legislative elections in the Gironde department in 2012, he has since signed the appeal of counsel in support of the nomination of Emmanuel Macron. Man of networks, he is a knight of the order of the Legion of Honor, is awarded the medal of Merit and defends the liberal professions to the economic and social Council.

David Gordon-Krief will have to deal with two lawyers based in Montpellier and very close to André Boudou, the father of Laeticia : Alain Scheuer and Gilles Gauer. With such a team, it is doubtful that the folder does not really towards the transaction. But in this soap opera with multiple plot twists, everything is possible. A transaction with Laura Smet, but not with David Hallyday is part of the possibilities. The next hearing in France is scheduled for 6 November in the hall of the assize at Versailles to 9 hours.