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E. Jean Carroll, center, outside Manhattan Federal Court with attorney Roberta Kaplan, right.
  • Trump and Carroll are fighting over his attorney's new claim that the judge was once her lawyer's "mentor."
  • Carroll's lawyer says she has no memory of the judge from when their tenures at a giant law firm briefly overlapped 30 years ago.
  • The lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, then threatened sanctions against Trump lawyer Alina Habba over her claim.

E. Jean Carroll's lawyer is fighting back against Donald Trump's claim that the judge in their defamation trials had been her "mentor" 30 years ago — writing in a court filing Tuesday that she has zero memory of interacting with the judge during their brief time working at the same large, national law firm.