{"id":83,"date":"2014-01-21T18:41:48","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T23:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rosemariearnoldreviews.com\/?p=83"},"modified":"2014-01-21T18:50:21","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T23:50:21","slug":"the-daily-beast-better-call-rosemarie-meet-the-lawyer-suing-christie-over-bridgegate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rosemariearnoldreviews.com\/the-daily-beast-better-call-rosemarie-meet-the-lawyer-suing-christie-over-bridgegate\/","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Beast: “Better Call Rosemarie! Meet the Lawyer Suing Christie Over Bridgegate”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Better Call Rosemarie! Meet the Lawyer Suing Christie Over Bridgegate<\/strong>
\nRosemary Arnold says her clients\u2014including a doggy-daycare owner\u2014suffered when their town was jammed with traffic.<\/em><\/p>\n

by Olivia Nuzzi
\nThe Daily Beast<\/em>
\nJanuary 16, 2014<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2014\/01\/16\/better-call-rosemarie-meet-the-lawyer-suing-christie-over-bridgegate.html<\/a><\/p>\n

In Fort Lee, New Jersey, perched high above the Hudson River, is a white, slightly weatherworn building. It houses the law offices of Rosemarie Arnold, advertised in bold white lettering above the doorway. At the entrance of the office driveway, a sign informs you that you are at \u201cThe Personal Injury Center.\u201d The.<\/p>\n

Six days ago, a group of six New Jersey residents filed a lawsuit in federal court in response to revelations that suggested at least one official in Governor Chris Christie\u2019s administration closed lanes of the George Washington Bridge as an act of political retribution against Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich, a Democrat. Rosemarie Arnold is the civil trial attorney who is representing those (now ten) residents. They are suing Christie, the Port Authority, ex-PA officials David Wildstein and Bill Baroni, and Christie\u2019s former deputy chief of staff, Bridget Anne Kelly.<\/p>\n

Arnold\u2019s website<\/a> advertises her practice areas: car accidents, dog bites, workplace injuries, burn injuries, workplace discrimination, dangerous and defective products, truck accidents, construction accidents, fall-down injuries, spinal-cord injuries, and wrongful death. When we emailed, she responded to me from her iPad. Her sign off included a series of emojis: three ambulances, five bags of money, four shamrocks, and a rose.<\/p>\n

Inside her office waiting room, which smells overwhelmingly of Italian food, a downtrodden client sits on a shiny, brown leather chair. He taps his foot and rests his head on the wall behind him, which is overflowing with thumb-tacked thank-you cards. The rest of the walls are decorated with framed press clippings, highlighting Arnold\u2019s many high profile legal battles.<\/p>\n

On the cover of US Weekly, with the headline \u201cMy World Was Shattered,\u201d is an article about supermodel Christie Brinkley\u2019s divorce. Arnold represented the young girl with whom Brinkley\u2019s ex allegedly had an affair. The entire wall is devoted to this one case, with three other full-page clippings from the New York Post.<\/p>\n

As I read the walls, Arnold, who sports a deep tan and dark brown hair, wizzed by, dressed down in jeans, a white tank top and a pink flannel shirt, \u201cI\u2019m running late, be with you in a minute!\u201d Arnold barely looks 25, which is about how long she has owned her practice.<\/p>\n

In front of a very large box of Advil, she began by explaining the terror that was the gridlock on the bridge. \u201cPeople were screaming at each other, and cars were coming like within millimeters of each other, like trying to cut each other off and be first! It was stressful; it was anxiety producing; and it made everybody late!\u201d<\/p>\n

Arnold told me one of her clients was late to work and fired. She said she knew of a \u201cnewspaper delivery company that delivers The Times\u201d who was affected, and has a client who owns a doggy daycare \u201cright at the foot of the bridge\u201d that couldn\u2019t have pooches picked up or dropped off.<\/p>\n

Arnold said her ten plaintiffs are just the ones they named, and she \u201cexpects the class to consist of over 100,000 people.\u201d Arnold adds, \u201ceach persons\u2019 damages need to be calculated, but I can\u2019t imagine this case is worth less than tens of millions of dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n

The smoking gun text by Bridget Ann Kelly (\u201cTime for some traffic problems in Fort Lee\u201d) is what Arnold says will win her case for her. The rest of the documents, she told me, weren\u2019t even that important. And Arnold, a former supporter of Christie, said his gross misjudgment and mismanagement in Bridgegate has turned her. \u201cThe governor to me is a clear-cut defendant in this case. He is the captain of the ship, and he has publicly stated that this was his fault and his administration failed. He actually publicly stated that they acted, and these are important words, with \u2018callous indifference,\u2019 that\u2019s purposeful conduct, that\u2019s not negligence, okay? And the governor has proven to be a bully who takes steps to retaliate against those who don\u2019t support him, so of course suing him puts people in a position where they might be subject to his wrath. I don\u2019t fear that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Given Arnold\u2019s familiarity with tabloids and television shows like Inside Edition, where she once appeared, I offer a comparison to Gloria Alred.<\/p>\n

Arnold gives me a look.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a serious law firm.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Better Call Rosemarie! Meet the Lawyer Suing Christie Over Bridgegate Rosemary Arnold says her clients\u2014including a doggy-daycare owner\u2014suffered when their town was jammed with traffic. by Olivia Nuzzi The Daily Beast January 16, 2014 http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2014\/01\/16\/better-call-rosemarie-meet-the-lawyer-suing-christie-over-bridgegate.html In Fort Lee, New Jersey, perched high above the Hudson River, is a white, slightly weatherworn building. It houses the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,1],"tags":[31,34,33,41,43,35,30,38,39,40,29,13,14,37,42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rosemariearnoldreviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rosemariearnoldreviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rosemariearnoldreviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rosemariearnoldreviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rosemariearnoldreviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/rosemariearnoldreviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84,"href":"http:\/\/rosemariearnoldreviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rosemariearnoldreviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rosemariearnoldreviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rosemariearnoldreviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}