John Edwards is back in the courtroom. Yes, that John Edwards. Six years ago the former U.S. senator from North Carolina destroyed his once-promising political career with a tawdry infidelity scandal. His problems continued in 2011, when the U.S. Department of Justice prosecuted him for alleged felony election law violations connected to that scandal, but Edwards defeated the charges in court.
Last October, Edwards, now 61, reactivated his law license in North Carolina and returned to his roots as a trial lawyer. He is practicing in Raleigh with his friend David Kirby at six-lawyer Edwards Kirby. His daughter Cate, who graduated from Harvard Law School in 2009, is an attorney in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office.
