Meet some of the lawyers who guided Donald Trump through over four thousand lawsuits

Donald Trump’s life and career have been defined by his legal battles. But do the attorneys who guided him through the courtrooms of New York and New Jersey know how to navigate Washington? Jonathan Mahler reports

“Read this, what he writes,” Jay Goldberg instructed, pointing at a typewritten letter hanging inside a large frame on the living-room wall of his Upper East Side penthouse. I read out loud: “Dear Jay, Thank you for the wonderful note you sent me over the Christmas holiday. I truly appreciate your great words and support. There has never been a lawyer more important to me than you. It is very important to me that you know that.”

Goldberg cut me off: “He underlined that,” he said, referring to the last sentence.