WHEELS OF JUSTICE.(The Talk of the Town)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 08-JAN-07

Bookmark this article Print this article Link to this article Email this article Digg It! Add to del.icio.us RSS

COPYRIGHT 2007 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc.

Like the nanny scandals of the early nineties, several recent public disgraces have counted in common a menial theme--that of the professional driver. There was Yoko Ono's chauffeur, who either tried to extort money from his boss or was the victim of her sexual advances; Princess Diana's, who was ruled (once and for all) to be drunk on the night of the fatal wreck; and the state employee who was paid two hundred thousand dollars to cart around Alan Hevesi's wife. It seemed a good time to check in with Lauren Z. Asher, an up-and-coming Manhattan attorney whose livelihood necessitates the defense, rather than the requisitioning, of the ubiquitous black town car.

Taxis, too: Asher's official motto (emblazoned on ads...

Read the full article for free courtesy of your local library.