Amber Heard hired a new legal team this week, in preparation for her appeal of the verdict of the defamation suit against Johnny Depp that resulted in her being ordered to pay $10.4 million in damages. Heard and her team hope to have the decision thrown out.
Going forward, Heard’s legal team will be led by David L. Axelrod and Jay Ward Brown of Ballard Spahr — the lawyers who famously defended The New York Times in a defamation lawsuit earlier brought by Sarah Palin earlier this year — with the assistance of Ben Rottenborn of Woods Rogers Vandeventer Black continuing as co-counsel.