AP DETROIT (AP) - A judge is expected to decide if Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is part of a lawsuit to stop city council forfeiture of office proceedings.
Council lawyer William Goodman argued Monday in Wayne County Circuit Court that two attorneys hired by the city's Law Department to fight forfeiture efforts actually represent Kilpatrick.

DETROIT - Attorney Godfrey Dillard is suing the Detroit City Council in efforts to block the Council from holding a forfeiture hearing against Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, but the case does not list Kilpatrick as a plaintiff. Instead it lists the city of Detroit.
City Council attorney Bill Goodman said he believes that the omission of Kilpatrick's name hides who is really behind the lawsuit.
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DETROIT, July 21 (UPI) - Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has assembled a legal team of unprecedented size as he battles corruption charges, legal experts say.
Analysts told The Detroit News Kilpatrick's defense team has included at least 17 public and private attorneys since last year when allegations of wrongdoing were first leveled. The newspaper said no one attorney is coordinating the efforts of the team as a whole.
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The legal power struggle continues over whether the Detroit City Council can move forward with hearings to remove Mayor Kilpatrick from office. Those for & against are set to appear in Wayne County Circuit Court today.
The question is whether or not the Detroit City Council still has the moral authority to conduct hearings to remove Mayor Kilpatrick from office as word of the FBI probe of the City Council is now public. Attorney Bill Goodman for Detroit’s City Council says yes, it does. "There has been a consistent majority on the City Council, five members, who from what everyone says and from what everyone can tell, are not under any cloud whatsoever, who are favoring

By JOE SWICKARD • FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER • July 21, 2008 A judge delayed a decision today on a suit asking who attorneys Robert Sedler and Godfried Dillard

DETROIT - Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, confronting legal challenges on at least six fronts, has assembled a huge team of attorneys to fight an array of civil lawsuits and attempts to remove him from office without compromising job one -- defending Kilpatrick on felony charges.
Experts say the multifaceted legal effort -- involving at least 17 public and private attorneys since 2007 -- is almost unprecedented and is all the more remarkable because no single attorney is choreographing the effort.
rge H.W. Bush among her past clients, and Kilpatrick has a team of heavy hitters who command respect and hefty paychecks.