The lawyer who beat Trump twice stands to make a fortune for doing so

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Roberta Kaplan was once a star litigator commanding high hourly fees at one of the top corporate-law firms in the country, representing big companies and other clients with deep pockets. But in 2017, Kaplan decided to go out on her own so she could have more freedom to take on cases she believed had social importance.

On the surface, it looked like Kaplan, a prominent proponent of progressive causes, was trading in a lucrative career for something more like public-interest law.

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