Camille Vasquez, the lawyer who grew to become a media sensation whereas representing actor Johnny Depp in his defamation case towards ex-wife Amber Heard, has landed a gig at NBC News.
Ms Vasquez, 38, made her preliminary look on the community in an official capability on Monday morning, when Today host Hoda Kotb launched the lawyer as an “NBC News legal analyst”.
“I’m thrilled to be joining the NBC family as a legal analyst. I grew up watching the Today show and it’s such a privilege to now be part of a world-class, dedicated team discussing the most important legal stories of the day,” Ms Vasquez advised the New York Post on Monday.
The community additionally confirmed Ms Vasquez’s hiring in a tweet.
Media shops reportedly engaged in a fierce competitors to land Ms Vasquez’s companies, with “at least three national news divisions” making an attempt to rent her as an analyst or contributor, in keeping with the Hollywood Reporter.
Ms Vasquez grew to become a family identify and viral sensation final 12 months through the highly-scrutinised Depp trial, the place she served as lead lawyer alongside Benjamin Chew. She continuously sparred with Heard through the trial’s cross-examination part.
The case culminated in a win for Depp and greater than $US10 million ($A14 million) in damages.
In her first look on NBC, Ms Vasquez supplied evaluation on the authorized fallout from the arrest of Bryan Kohberger, the suspect presently in custody for the murders of 4 school college students in Moscow, Idaho final 12 months.
The lawyer mentioned prosecutors had an “extremely strong” case towards Mr Kohberger.
“The police and the investigators are not in the business of telling us everything they have,” Ms Vasquez mentioned. “They want to put enough to get probable cause to get a judge to sign that search warrant.”
Ms Vasquez is a associate at Brown Rudnick, the place she serves as co-chair of the legislation agency’s model and popularity administration group.
“Camille is adept at formulating offensive and defensive litigation strategies for private clients,” her bio on the legislation agency’s web site says. “She also has extensive experience handling parallel reputation management and crisis communications issues arising from these engagements.”
This article initially appeared on the New York Post and was reproduced with permission
