Superlawyers and Superwaits

By vouchey in News on Jan 14, 2005 8:16PM

First there was Superman, then supermodels, and in recent years, superlawyers. Case in point: Winston & Strawn attorney, Dan Webb.

You may know Dan Webb from representing Phillip Morris in the Tobacco Wars of The Nineties, or William Kennedy Smith, or the New York Stock Exchange. And now he's defending former Governor George Ryan against the U.S. Attorney's bribery and corruption charges.

From his resume, Chicagoist immediately understood that Dan Webb is a Big Deal. But we find it laughable that yesterday Webb filed a petition to delay Ryan's trial because his Very Important Work representing Phillip Morris will delay him until July. According to the filing he'll need at least that long if he is going to properly prepare for the U.S. v. Ryan case. And anyway, the Sixth Amendment guarantees a defendant his representation of choice. To top it all off, "Webb is uniquely qualified to defend George Ryan."

Chicagoist hopes U.S. District Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer shoves this filing down Webb and Ryan's throats. It's just another example of the usual penis measuring Very Important lawyers tend to do together. "Oh yeah? Well, my pee-pee is so big, I got a federal judge to delay the case just so I could try it. Whaddya think of that?"