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“He would often say, ‘Henry, you’re my guy,’” Hockeimer said. “If he felt there was a need to go in another direction I’m confident he would have.”

March 20, 2024 at 05:12 PM

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  • Ballard Spahr partner Henry Hockeimer Jr. testified that his firm’s ties with Comcast never influenced his defense of labor leader John Dougherty.
  • Dougherty alleged Ballard Spahr’s work for Comcast created a conflict of interest during his corruption trial.
  • Hockeimer said Dougherty’s lawyers were not involved in the firm’s work for Comcast.

The head of Ballard Spahr’s white-collar defense/internal investigations group disputed that any conflicts of interest occurred during his defense of Philadelphia labor leader John Dougherty in a 2021 corruption trial. 

Ballard Spahr partner Henry Hockeimer Jr. asserted in an evidentiary hearing Wednesday that his firm’s work for Comcast—a company allegedly harmed by Dougherty’s crimes—did not have any bearing on his representation of the the once politically powerful boss of Local 98 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. 

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