After two bids for the Oval Office, a sex scandal and a fraud trial, John Edwards is back where he started from.The former senator will be practicing personal injury law in his home state of North Carolina, CNN affiliate WRAL reported Monday.
He is opening a practice in Raleigh with the same law partner he started his first firm with in 1993, David Kirby.
The firm will practice under the name Edwards Kirby. The announcement is Edwards' first step back into the public eye since he was acquitted of campaign finance charges last year.
The trial dragged into the light messy details of a love affair Edwards had with a campaign employee, while the wife who supported his ambitions was dying of cancer. It crushed his public image and may have put an end to any further political ambitions.
Edwards originally used his success as a lawyer to springboard into politics. His daughter does not think he'll try that move again.
"I would be very surprised," Cate Edwards told WRAL. She has joined the firm and said that from here on out, her father will concentrate on practicing law.
Love of law
"I loved it for the decades I did it, and I think it's what I was born to do," John Edwards told North Carolina's News & Observer website. His political career is over, he said.
He also does not think that his affair with Reille Hunter -- which resulted in a child he originally denied fathering -- would influence juries against his clients, he told the News & Observer."Courtrooms are not a place where, in my experience, showmanship and flamboyance wins out. Hard work and having a case that is true and meritorious wins out," he told the paper.
The former senator wants to expand from personal injury into cases of social injustice."We want to take on cases that, through litigation, change social inequalities in favor of the greater good," Edwards said in a statement to WRAL.
Personal injury is still on the menu, but the firm currently also has cases of bad faith insurance, price fixing and several discrimination cases, Cate Edwards said.
Square one two decades ago, the firm Edwards founded with Kirby was known as Edwards & Kirby, LLP. Edwards quickly became a shooting star.
In 1996, he was named lawyer of the year.
Two years later, his political career began, when he won a seat in the U.S. Senate.
He ran for president in the Democratic primary in 2004but lost to John Kerry. In 2007, his wife Elizabeth, who had been battling cancer, suffered a relapse.
In 2008, Edwards ran again but dropped out, endorsing neither Hillary Clinton nor Barack Obama for the presidency. Shortly before that, Hunter gave birth to her and Edward's child. No father was listed on the birth certificate. In 2010, former aide Andrew A. Young, in a book about Edwards' political career, alleged Edwards misappropriated campaign funds to cover Hunter's pregnancy expenses. Days before publication, Edwards separated from his wife. She died later that year.
Edwards was charged with fraud and later acquitted but developed a heart condition during the trial. In May this year, Edwards reactivated his license to practice law.
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