President Trump is said to prefer a team of lawyers over a single attorney as his outside counsel. By Monday, a list of finalists for the legal team had emerged, according to four people briefed on the discussions. Olson, a partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Washington, D.C., office, is now married to Lady Booth Olson, a self-proclaimed lifelong Democrat. The outside legal team would be separate from the White House Counsel’s Office, which is led by Donald F. McGahn, who served as the Trump campaign’s lawyer. In past administrations, presidents such as Bill Clinton have named outside counsel to help them navigate thorny legal problems.

Source: Washington Post May 22, 2017 21:03 UTC