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Joe Francis: Clients gone Wild

January 29, 2009

"Girls Gone Wild" impresario Joe Francis has fired the lawyer who got Wesley Snipes convicted only of failure to file, rather than his more serious tax evasion charges. It seems that Mr. Bernhoft, who got his start working with tax protesters before the Snipes trial made him a minor celebrity in the tax defense world, left on rather bitter terms.

TaxGrrrl says that Mr. Bernhoft should have seen the signs:

But Bernhoft had to see this coming. After all of the other law firms, the signs had to be there: the late nights, the roving eyes, the saying he’d call when he didn’t. He wasn’t ever going to commit to just one law firm. He’s not that kind of guy.