Lewinsky lawyer William Ginsburg dies at age 70
LOS ANGELES —William Ginsburg, a seasoned medical malpractice attorney who bolted to national prominence in the brutal arena of Washington politics as Monica Lewinsky’s lawyer, died Monday at his home in the San Fernando Valley city of Sherman Oaks. He was 70.
The cause was cancer, said his daughter-in-law Virginia Ginsburg.
In 1998 Ginsburg was a senior partner in a Beverly Hills medical malpractice firm, where he had a sterling track record defending unpopular clients. He represented the physician accused of covering up the cause of entertainer Liberace’s death from AIDS and the cardiologist who examined Loyola Marymount University basketball star Hank Gathers just before the young player’s sudden death during a game.
He also defended a Glendale hospital in a case that wound up helping to establish the foundation for a patient’s right to die.
