Alex Jones’ Lawyers Can’t Blame Paralegal for Sharing His Texts

Welcome back to another edition of Opening Argument, a reported column where I dig into complicated novel questions of law and unpack disputes that are dividing appeals courts. Today: A look at whether Alex Jones’s lawyer could be disciplined for inadvertently handing years worth of his client’s texts to opposing counsel.

If there’s any lesson attorneys can learn from the defamation case against Alex Jones, it’s that you can’t blame the paralegal.

That’s what his attorney Andino Reynal tried to do after opposing counsel revealed in a made-for-TV cross examination that Reynal had “messed up” by sharing a digital copy ...