The deadline for the parties in the investigation of Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, to assert attorney-client privilege on evidence in the case has passed, and Cohen has added to his legal team a former lawyer who worked in the White House for President Bill Clinton. 

On June 26, Alan Futerfas, who represents the Trump Organization—Trump’s business entities—in the matter, asked for weeks of additional time to review some 20,000 documents handed over by the government, but U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood of the Southern District of New York set the deadline for July 5.