Lindsey Halligan is an American lawyer, licensed to practice in Florida. For most of her career she has been an insurance lawyer, handling residential and commercial insurance claims. Since 2022, she has represented former United States President Donald Trump, and is part of the defense team for his 2023 classified documents case in Florida.

Law career

2013–21: Insurance lawyer

Halligan graduated the University of Miami School of Law in 2013. She was admitted to the Florida Bar in 2014. Halligan is a

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insurance lawyer. She handles residential and commercial insurance claims. Halligan was second chair to another lawyer defending an insurance company at a two-day trial against three Miami homeowners who had suffered damaged roofs. In that case, a judge would not award her

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because he ruled that her team did not act "in

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2022–present: lawyer for Donald Trump

Classified intelligence material found during search of Mar-a-Lago

Halligan has represented former US president Donald Trump since 2022. By August 2022, she had never handled a federal case. She was at Mar-a-Lago during the

FBI search of Mar-a-Lago On August8, 2022, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago, the residence of former U.S. president Donald Trump in Palm Beach, Florida. The search warrant application was authorized by U.S. Attorne ...

in August 2022, quickly became involved in Trump's lawsuit in October 2022 against CNN for allegedly comparing Trump to Hitler, and has been involved in his defense against the federal government in the classified documents case. Halligan is the local counsel for the case spawned by the FBI's execution of a search warrant at Trump's home at Mar-a-Lago, which Halligan said came as a "huge surprise," in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, and filed the Motions to Appear Pro Hac Vice for Evan Corcoran and James Trusty, initially on August 22, 2022. She was one of the few lawyers working for Trump who was on site during the FBI search. She said Trump's subsequent indictment goes "for the jugular". Trump's

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PAC paid Halligan $212,000 from June 2022 to June 2023.

References

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