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the
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the
homeless,
the
infirm.
Discuss
By
Christian
Berthelsen
and
Stuart
Pfeifer,
Los
Angeles
Times
Staff
Writers
January
28,
2008
As
former
Orange
County
Sheriff
Michael
S.
Carona
prepares
for
trial
on
criminal
charges
that
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sold
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to
his
office
for
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in
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United
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Based
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500.
Though
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of,
the
case
--
defending
an
allegedly
corrupt
sheriff
who
is
making
about
$200,000
a
year
in
retirement
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is
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by
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standards.
Typically,
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work
involves
providing
legal
services
to
society's
most
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--
the
indigent,
the
homeless,
the
infirm.
And
rather
than
corruption
or
graft,
the
cases
more
often
concern
discrimination
and
evictions.
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us,
that
wouldn't
be a
typical
pro
bono
client,"
said
Esther
F.
Lardent,
president
and
chief
executive
of
the
Pro
Bono
Institute
at
Georgetown
University
Law
Center.
"When
we
talk
about
modest
means,
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typically
talking
about
someone
with
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lower
income."
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did
Carona
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of
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country's
top-flight
law
firms
to
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up
his
case
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charge?
Jones
Day
would
not
say.
But
others
familiar
with
the
relationship
between
the
fallen
sheriff
and
the
national
law
firm,
who
spoke
on
the
condition
they
not
be
identified,
said
a
series
of
quick
and
somewhat
unexpected
events
sealed
the
deal:
Shortly
before
he
was
indicted
on
federal
corruption
charges,
Carona
approached
Brian
A.
Sun,
a
top
partner
in
Jones
Day's
Los
Angeles
office,
acting
on
the
recommendation
of
one
lawyer
who
knew
Sun
and
a
second
lawyer
who
knew
him
by
reputation.
Sun
is a
former
federal
prosecutor
who
obtained
a
$1.65-million
settlement
for
the
vindicated
former
Los
Alamos
nuclear
scientist
Wen
Ho
Lee
(the
U.S.
government
and
five
news
organizations,
including
the
Los
Angeles
Times,
paid
the
settlement).
Jones
Day
did
not
initially
intend
to
do
the
case
pro
bono,
but
once
the
law
firm
took
stock
of
Carona's
finances,
they
realized
he
had
little
ability
to
pay
a
bill
that
could
swell
to
$1
million
or
more.
The
team
initially
considered
creating
a
legal
defense
fund
for
which
Carona
could
raise
contributions,
but
there
were
complications
about
whether
state
law
would
limit
the
donations,
and
there
was
concern
about
negative
publicity
should
any
of
the
donations
prove
controversial.
But
Sun
was
interested
in
the
case
because
he
viewed
it
as a
classic
example
of
government
overreach,
and
did
not
want
to
drop
it.
So
rather
than
withdrawing,
Sun
offered
to
handle
it
pro
bono
as
long
as
Carona
resigned.
Carona
would
continue
to
pay
all
costs
of
the
defense,
such
as
investigators
and
expert
witnesses.
Carona
also
agreed
to
pay
Jones
Day's
legal
fees
up
to
the
date
of
his
resignation
this
month,
and
he
continues
to
pay
H.
Dean
Steward,
a
San
Clemente
attorney
who
has
represented
him
for
more
than
two
years.
"To
suggest
that
he's
getting
a
free
legal
ride
is
wholly
inaccurate,"
Sun
said.
"Mike
and
his
family
will
likely
expend
much
of
their
net
worth
defending
these
charges."
Lawyers
familiar
with
Sun's
work
said
they
were
not
surprised
he
would
take
on a
client
like
Carona,
even
if
he
weren't
able
to
pay
his
typical
fees.
"He
represents
people
that
he
thinks
are
being
unfairly
treated
by
the
justice
system,"
said
Janet
I.
Levine,
a
lawyer
who
has
known
Sun
for
25
years.
"You
can't
do
that
full
time,
obviously.
But
he
has
always
been
lucky
to
have
the
freedom
to
take
on
cases
he
really
believes
in."
It
is
difficult
to
assess
the
full
value
of
Carona's
assets
from
existing
public
records.
In
his
annual
statement
of
economic
interests
filed
last
year,
which
covered
the
2006
calendar
year,
the
then-sheriff
disclosed
a
stake
in a
living
trust
but
did
not
report
the
value
of
its
holdings.
He
reported
additional
investments
worth
$110,000
to
$1.1
million,
but
the
forms
did
not
require
him
to
be
more
specific.
He
reported
drawing
$10,000
to
$100,000
in
income
or
loans
from
his
own
campaign
fund,
and
two
other
small
payments.
Carona
was
not
required
to
disclose
whether
he
owned
a
house,
its
worth
or
its
encumbrance
by a
mortgage.
One
of
the
investments
Carona
reported
was
in
Entrade,
a
property
auction
firm
associated
with
his
former
political
patron
Donald
Haidl,
who
has
since
pleaded
guilty
to a
federal
tax
charge
and
agreed
to
serve
as
the
government's
chief
witness
against
Carona.
At
the
time
of
his
resignation
from
office,
Carona
was
receiving
total
compensation
from
the
county
of
nearly
$209,000
per
year.
Given
his
years
of
service
under
his
pension
agreement,
that
will
entitle
him
to
an
annual
retirement
salary
of
about
$200,000.
Michael
Schroeder,
a
lawyer
and
political
ally
of
Carona,
said
the
former
sheriff's
legal
bills
had
already
exceeded
his
net
worth.
Even
by
the
standards
of
Jones
Day's
own
pro
bono
program,
the
Carona
case
stands
out.
According
to
the
firm's
pro
bono
prospectus
on
vault.com,
a
career
research
web
site,
the
firm's
charity
legal
work
included
winning
asylum
for
a
client
from
Cameroon
who
suffered
political
persecution,
reviewing
Houston's
response
to
Hurricane
Katrina
and
securing
a
new
trial
for
an
indigent
death
row
defendant.
The
notion
of
performing
public
service
through
pro
bono
programs
has
long
been
a
component
of
work
at
top
law
firms,
and
firms
use
the
appeal
of
charity
work
as a
recruiting
tool
to
attract
young
lawyers
eager
to
give
back
through
their
career,
such
as
tackling
social
ills
or
representing
the
needy,
in
addition
to
their
regular
work.
To
that
end,
Lardent
said,
firms
arrange
for
cases
such
as
providing
free
representation
for
death
row
inmates
or,
more
recently,
for
detainees
at
Guantanamo
Bay.
"It
signals
to
young
lawyers
that
it's
not
a
firm
that's
just
about
money,
it's
about
something
bigger,"
Lardent
said.
There
have
been
previous
cases
in
which
firms
defended
politicians
in
criminal
cases
on a
pro
bono
basis.
In
the
most
notable,
the
Chicago
law
firm
Winston
&
Strawn
represented
former
Illinois
Gov.
George
Ryan
in
his
trial
on
corruption
charges,
in a
defense
that
was
estimated
to
be
worth
$20
million.
Ryan
was
convicted.
But
the
firm
was
also
denied
pro
bono
credit
for
that
work
by
American
Lawyer
magazine,
which
each
year
publishes
a
ranking
of
how
much
pro
bono
work
the
largest
law
firms
in
the
United
States
provide.
Because
Ryan
earned
a
pension
of
nearly
$200,000,
the
magazine
concluded
the
work
did
not
meet
the
definition
of
pro
bono,
said
American
Lawyer
editor-in-chief
Eric
Press.
Jones
Day
should
also
expect
that
its
work
for
Carona
would
not
be
included
for
the
same
reason,
Press
said,
although
there's
no
indication
the
firm
intends
to
submit
it
for
pro
bono
credit.
"I
pass
no
judgment
on
whether
this
is a
worthy
thing
to
do
or
not,"
Press
said.
"It
may
be a
public
service.
But
for
our
purposes,
we
have
definitions
about
what
constitutes
pro
bono
work.
If
the
person
can
pay
for
legal
representation,
we
don't
count
that
as
pro
bono
work."
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