Extraction Summary

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People
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Organizations
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Locations
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Events
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Relationships
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Document Information

Type: Legal declaration (court filing)
File Size: 114 KB
Summary

Legal declaration by attorney Bradley J. Edwards filed on June 13, 2016, in support of a motion to quash a subpoena from Ghislaine Maxwell. Edwards details his representation of Virginia Giuffre and the undue burden of reviewing over 200,000 emails for communications with journalists. He explicitly states that Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein share a joint defense agreement and mentions Giuffre's association with the organization 'Victims Refuse Silence, Inc.'

People (11)

Name Role Context
Bradley J. Edwards Declarant / Attorney for Plaintiff
Attorney for Virginia Giuffre; author of the declaration; challenging a subpoena.
Jack Scarola Attorney
Attorney representing Bradley J. Edwards in this motion.
Virginia L. Giuffre Plaintiff
Plaintiff in the underlying case against Ghislaine Maxwell; client of Bradley Edwards.
Ghislaine Maxwell Defendant
Defendant in the underlying case; served subpoena to Edwards.
Alan Dershowitz Defendant (in related case)
Mentioned in relation to the case 'Edwards and Cassell v. Dershowitz'; his deposition is an exhibit.
Jeffrey Epstein Associated Person
Mentioned as having a joint defense agreement with Maxwell; sued Edwards in 'Epstein v. Edwards et al.'; subject of t...
Sigrid S. McCawley Attorney
Co-counsel for Virginia Giuffre.
Meredith Schulz Attorney
Co-counsel for Virginia Giuffre.
Paul G. Cassell Attorney
Co-counsel for Virginia Giuffre; co-plaintiff in suit against Dershowitz.
Laura A. Menninger Attorney
Attorney for Ghislaine Maxwell; recipient of service.
Jeffrey S. Pagliuca Attorney
Attorney for Ghislaine Maxwell; recipient of service.

Organizations (7)

Name Type Context
Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley, P.A.
Law firm representing Bradley J. Edwards.
Boies, Schiller & Flexner, LLP
Law firm of co-counsel Sigrid McCawley and Meredith Schulz.
University of Utah
Location of Paul G. Cassell's law office.
Victims Refuse Silence, Inc. (VRS)
Florida not-for-profit corporation; Virginia Giuffre is associated with it.
Haddon, Morgan and Foreman, P.C.
Law firm representing Ghislaine Maxwell.
U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida
Government entity involved in correspondence regarding Epstein.
United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida
Court where this declaration is filed.

Timeline (2 events)

2008-07
Filing of case Jane Doe 1 and Jane Doe 2 v. United States (CVRA case).
Southern District of Florida
2016-06-13
Filing of Declaration by Bradley J. Edwards.
Southern District of Florida

Locations (5)

Location Context
Location of Jack Scarola's office; venue for 'Epstein v. Edwards' case.
Location of Bradley Edwards' law office.
Location of Paul Cassell's office.
Venue for the underlying 'Giuffre v. Maxwell' case.
Location of Maxwell's attorneys.

Relationships (3)

Ghislaine Maxwell Legal Alliance Jeffrey Epstein
Declaration states: 'Ghislaine Mawell is in a joint defense agreement with Jeffrey Epstein.'
Virginia Giuffre Attorney-Client Bradley J. Edwards
Edwards declares he is counsel of record for plaintiff Virginia L. Giuffre.
Virginia Giuffre Association Victims Refuse Silence, Inc.
Declaration states Giuffre is a 'person associated with Victims Refuse Silence, Inc.'

Key Quotes (4)

"Ghislaine Mawell is in a joint defense agreement with Jeffrey Epstein."
Source
001-01.pdf
Quote #1
"My client, Ms. Giuffre, is a 'person associated with Victims Refuse Silence, Inc.'"
Source
001-01.pdf
Quote #2
"Between July 2008 and today, I estimate that I have received, at a minimum, more than 150,000 emails, and have sent, at a minimum, 60,000 emails."
Source
001-01.pdf
Quote #3
"It would be significantly burdensome for me to have to review all of my emails to try and identify if I have had any 'communications' with (for example) 'journalists' that 'related to' Virginia Giuffre, Ghislaine Maxwell, or Jeffrey Epstein."
Source
001-01.pdf
Quote #4

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Case 1:17-mc-00025-RWS Document 1-1 Filed 06/13/16 Page 1 of 7
Jack Scarola
Florida Bar No.: 169440
Attorney E-Mail(s): jsx@searcylaw.com and
mep@searcylaw.com
Primary E-Mail: _scarolateam@searcylaw.com
Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley, P.A.
2139 Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard
West Palm Beach, Florida 33409
Phone: (561) 686-6300
Fax: (561) 383-9451
Attorney for Bradley J. Edwards
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA
In re: SUBPOENA TO BRADLEY J.
EDWARDS
Underlying case:
VIRGINIA L. GIUFFRE, Plaintiff
v.
GHISLAINE MAXWELL, Defendant
No. 15-cv-07433-RWS (S.D.N.Y.)
DECLARATION OF BRADLEY J.
EDWARDS IN SUPPORT OF MOTION
TO QUASH SUBPOENA OR, IN THE
ALTERNATIVE, FOR A PROTECTIVE
ORDER
Case No.
I, Bradley J. Edwards, declare as follows:
1. I am an attorney at law duly licensed in the State of Florida and admitted to
practice in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. I respectfully submit
Case 1:17-mc-00025-RWS Document 1-1 Filed 06/13/16 Page 2 of 7
this declaration in support of the Motion to Quash Subpoena or, in the Alternative, for a
Protective Order.
2. Attached as Exhibit 1 is a true and correct copy of the complaint filed in the
Southern District of New York in the case of Virginia L. Giuffre v. Ghislaine Maxwell.
3. Attached as Exhibit 2 is a true and correct copy of the subpoena received by
Bradley J. Edwards.
4. Attached as Exhibit 3 is a composite exhibit, which are true and correct copies
of pages from the Deposition of Alan Dershowitz.
5. Attached as Exhibit 4 is a true and correct copy of a composite document
containing Plaintiff’s Second Request for Production of Documents and Defendant
Maxwell’s Responses and Objections Thereto.
6. Attached as Exhibit 5 is a true and correct copy of the complaint filed in the
case currently styled as Jane Doe 1 and Jane Doe v. United States (S.D. Fla.).
7. Attached as Exhibit 6 is a true and correct copy a subpoena sent to a Florida
company, Victims Refuse Silence, Inc. (VRS).
8. I maintain my law office in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
9. I am a counsel of record for plaintiff Virginia L. Giuffre in the case Giuffre v.
Maxwell, No. 15-cv-07433-RWS (S.D.N.Y.). Other counsel of record include: Sigrid S.
McCawley and Meredith Schulz of Boies, Schiller & Flexner, LLP (Ft. Lauderdale, Florida),
and Paul G. Cassell (who maintains his law office at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City,
Utah).
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10. I have received a subpoena to produce numerous documents in the Giuffre v.
Maxwell case. I am not a party to that case, but the attorney for the plaintiff, Ms. Giuffre.
11. I was a party to a case styled Edwards and Cassell v. Dershowitz, 15-000072
(17th Judicial District, Broward County, Florida). The production at issue in that case
spanned several thousand pages of documents. Production from defendant Dershowitz came
in several different stages, and various productions involved assertions of privilege.
Production to defendant Dershowitz of documents and receipt of documents in that case was
handled by my attorney. While I have many of the documents that were produced or
received, I did not maintain a separate file as I was merely a party in the litigation and did not
keep records of the exact documents produced or received during that litigation. Id.
12. I am party in the case Epstein v. Edwards et al., Case No. 50-2009 CA
040800XXXNMBAG (15th Judicial Circuit, West Palm Beach, Florida). The case has been
litigated for seven years. A substantial number of documents are involved in the case. Many
of the subjects in the case overlap with subjects in the on-going Jane Doe 1 and Jane Doe 2
v. United States case, as well as the now-closed Edwards and Cassell v. Dershowitz case.
Because of this overlap, and because I was merely a party and not the primary attorney
handling the Epstein v. Edwards case, I have not maintained a separate file for this matter nor
have I segregated any materials for the Epstein v. Edwards case. It would be an enormous
burden and would be impossible to try and identify which discovery materials relate only to
the Epstein v. Edwards case.
13. Ghislaine Mawell is in a joint defense agreement with Jeffrey Epstein. See
Exhibit 5, answers to RFPs 6 and 7.
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14. I am a counsel of record in the case of Jane Doe 1 and Jane Doe 2 v. United
States, No. 9:08-cv-80736-MARRA (S.D. Fla.), along with co-counsel Paul G. Cassell. We
filed the case in July of 2008 and have been handling the matter ever since on a pro bono
basis.
15. Over the course of the nearly eight years of litigation in the case, the
Government has produced correspondence between attorneys for Jeffrey Epstein and itself
(i.e., the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida and other components of
the Justice Department). That correspondence has been produced in multiple steps and
amounts to hundreds of pages (if not thousands of pages) of material.
16. Defendant Maxwell has sought any engagement letters between me and Ms.
Giuffre in the Giuffre v. Maxwell case, and production has been made.
17. Defendant Maxwell has sought production of Ms. Giuffre’s joint defense
agreement that pertains to the Giuffre v. Maxwell case. On May 31, 2016, a copy of the joint
defense agreement was provided to Ms. Maxwell as Exhibit 5 in support of Ms. Giuffre’s
Response in Opposition to Defendant’s Motion to Compel Non-Privileged Documents.
18. With regard to any work that I have done on behalf of a Florida not-for-profit
corporation, Victims Refuse Silence, Inc. (VRS), that would have been work as an attorney
for my client Ms. Giuffre and would, accordingly, be protected by the attorney-client
privilege, a privilege which is my client’s, not mine.
19. My client, Ms. Giuffre, is a “person associated with Victims Refuse Silence,
Inc.”
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20. With waiving any privilege, any documents that might exist concerning
disclosures made to me by Ms. Giuffre or consents provided to me by Ms. Giuffre would
involve confidential attorney-client communications.
21. I have been working on the CVRA case since July 2008. That case clearly
“relates” to Jeffrey Epstein, since the main issue in the case is challenging the legality of a
non-prosecution agreement entered into by him and the Government without prior notice to
Epstein’s victims.
22. Between July 2008 and today, I estimate that I have received, at a minimum,
more than 150,000 emails, and have sent, at a minimum, 60,000 emails.
23. It would be significantly burdensome for me to have to review all of my
emails to try and identify if I have had any “communications” with (for example)
“journalists” that “related to” Virginia Giuffre, Ghislaine Maxwell, or Jeffrey Epstein. It is
not possible, on quick examination, to determine who is a journalist and who is not a
journalist. Moreover, because the CVRA case has continued for nearly eight years, more
than 200,000 emails would have to be reviewed in multiple files for the relevant time period.
I would then have to determine which of the emails were covered by, for example, work-
product protection. A substantial burden would be involved in attempting to respond to the
broad request for the subpoena, which would require numerous attorneys and staff to work
countless hours to attempt to respond, and this too would likely prove to be impossible.
24. Because I am attorney in the Giuffre v. Maxwell case, I have had occasion to
come into contact with both witnesses and potential witnesses in the case. For example, I
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have obviously had contact with my client in the case, Ms. Giuffre. I have also had contact
with other “potential witnesses” – since there are many potential witnesses in the case.
DATED this 13th day of June, 2016.
By: /s/ Bradley J. Edwards
Case 1:17-mc-00025-RWS Document 1-1 Filed 06/13/16 Page 7 of 7
CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
I certify that on June 13, 2016, I electrically served the foregoing pleading via e-mail
on:
Laura A. Menninger
Jeffrey S. Pagliuca
Haddon, Morgan and Foreman, P.C.
150 East 10th Avenue
Denver, CO 80203
Phone: (303) 831-7364
Fax: (303) 832-2628
lmenninger@hmflaw.com
Attorneys for Ghislaine Maxwell

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