Who is Donald Trump’s attorney? What’s the former president’s lawyer’s net worth?
A little-known lawyer from New Jersey has become one of former president Trump’s go-to lawyers and now a senior advisor in his political action committee.
In September 2021, Alina Habba became lead attorney defending former president Trump in a defamation case brought by former “Apprentice” contestant Summer Zervos. Just weeks later she filed a $100 million lawsuit against the New York Times and Trump’s niece Mary L Trump on his behalf. Landing Trump as a client was quite the shift for the managing partner of the small law firm Habba Madaio & Associates LLP located near Trump’s Bedminster golf club in New Jersey.
Prior to becoming lead counsel on these high-profile cases, and more since, Habba was suing the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut on behalf of a disgruntled student who wanted a refund for classes going on-line during covid and a New Jersey nursing home for a man over allegedly lax care during the pandemic. So how did she get the job and how is it paying off?
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Who is Donald Trump’s attorney Alina Habba?
Habba has be practicing law since 2011. Prior to starting her own firm in 2020 she was a managing partner at a mid-sized firm for seven years. According to her practice’s website she successfully expanded its business throughout the entire Northeast region. Habba Madaio & Associates LLP currently has five employees according to Datanyze with revenue approaching $900,000.
Her personal fortunes spiked when she took on Trump as a client with her annual income hitting an estimated $210,000 in 2021. Her net worth jumped anywhere between half a million to a million that year according to Popular Bio.
She has taken on more cases to represent Trump in court and now in the realm of politics as well. She is now a senior advisor to MAGA Inc, his new political action committee.
Working for Trump has put her into legal jeopardy
Her brash tactics in the court room and unfaltering support for the ex-president on right-wing cable news media have enamored her to Trump. However, her court room antics and level of professionalism have drawn the ire of other members of his legal team staving off numerous lawsuits and growing legal problems which could spread to her.
Like several lawyers that have worked for the former president before her, she could now be facing legal problems of her own. In representing Trump in his legal battle with the New York Attorney General Letitia James over the valuations of his assets she swore that she had thoroughly looked through “all desks, drawers, nightstands, dressers, closets, etc.” at Mar-a-Lago in May 2022, prior to the FBI search of the property.
This could potentially make her a witness in the government’s case against Trump for withholding government documents including classified material that were found there by agents. Furthermore, she recently settled with one of her former employees in out-of-court negotiations.
It has been reported that her aggrieved ex-secretary had accused her of being a racist and insensitive boss. The intimate knowledge by the former employee of what records Trump’s go-to lawyer has been privy to puts the ex-secretary in a uniquely damaging position.