Who Is Elaine Bredehoft? Amber Heard’s Attorney Viral For Courtroom Moments

During six week course of Johnny Depp’s $50 million defamation trial against ex-spouse Amber Heard, the jury members have finished hearing evidence as of Thursday. But Amber Heard’s lawyer Elaine Bredehoft was affected in a bad light by the witness, Morgan Tremaine, a former TMZ employee while questioning him at the stand. 

According to reports, he was asked to share his interactions with the Amber Heard/Johnny Depp relationship back in 2016. While he was testifying, Elaine Bredehoft alleged that he was trying to get his “15 minutes of fame."

Who Is Elaine Bredehoft?

Since 1984, Bredehoft  from Northern Minnesota, has been successfully trying cases in state and federal courts in Virginia, the District of Columbia and Maryland.

Bredehoft has been acknowledged in publications as one of the Top Lawyers in Virginia, Washington, D.C. & Baltimore. Ranked as one of the top ten lawyers in the Washington D.C. Metropolitan area, she gained repeated recognition by Virginia Business magazine as one of Virginia’s Legal Elites (as published in Virginia Business Magazine).

Bredehoft has been selected as a Super Lawyer in Virginia and Washington, D.C. for many years. In April 2009, Virginia Lawyers Weekly pronounced Bredehoft as one of Virginia’s Most Influential Women after including her in The Best Lawyers in America every year since 1997.

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According to Charlson Bredehoft Cohen Brown & Nadelhaft, one of the Best Law Firms in the Washington DC metropolitan area, in 2003,  Bredehoft was introduced to the American College of Trial Lawyers, an honour limited to the top 1% of attorneys in each state. In 2005, she was awarded the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, an honour limited in the United States to 500 trial attorneys under the age of 70. In 2007, Bredehoft was chosen for Fellowship in Litigation Counsel of America, an honorary society comprised of less than one-half of one per cent of American lawyers. 

She operated for many years on the Boyd Graves Conference, a coalition of Judges, Legislators and Attorneys tackling and fixing legal inequities and is also a Permanent Member of the Fourth Circuit Judicial Conference.

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