Trump’s Lawyer Leads Counterattack From Her 5-Attorney Firm

Alina Habba keeps a framed news article on a wall of her well-appointed five-bedroom mansion in New Jersey with a distinctive signature scrawled across it with a sharpie.

“Alina -- Great job!” former President Donald Trump wrote on the Nov. 12, 2021, story. The memento hails Habba’s work bringing to a successful end a 2017 lawsuit brought against him by a onetime “Apprentice” contestant who’d accused him of sexual assault and then sued him for defamation when he called her a liar.

Habba, 38, doesn’t have a big midtown law office or a huge firm behind her. But the graduate of Lehigh University ...