Objecting your honor! Counsel's cleavage is showing.
A Chicago lawyer is saying his opponent in a small claims case is using his paralegal's large breasts to distract the jury.
Attorney Thomas Gooch, who is representing a car dealership, filed a motion last week asking Judge Anita Rivkin-Carothers to force the opposing lawyer's buxom assistant to sit in the audience, rather than at the plaintiff's table.
Gooch said lawyer Dmitry N. Feofanov is using brunette beauty Daniella Atencia "to draw the attention of the jury away from the relevant proceedings."
Feofanov has slammed Gooch for sexism, insisting that his stunning sidekick is his paralegal assistant, and he needs her at his table.
Gooch said he wasn't carping about Atencia's décolletage - he just doesn't think she's a real paralegal, the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin reported.
"Personally, I like large breasts," he said. "However, I object to somebody I don't think is a qualified paralegal sitting at the counsel table -- when there's already two lawyers there -- dressed in such a fashion as to call attention to herself."
Gooch said he has faced off with Feofanov outside the court before, and arbitrators asked Atencia to leave.
Feofanov said he's got paperwork to prove she's legit.
She's been paid for paralegal services - at a whopping $115 an hour - in two court orders by judges before.
But Gooch said she's bogus.
"That's not a qualification," Gooch said. "That means Dmitry handed up a bill to a judge that said 'paralegal' on it."
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