Crime & Justice

Elite NYC Lawyers Locked in Bitter Custody Feud Over Beloved Mini Poodle

‘NEEDS ME IN HER LIFE’

“Raven is more than a dog to me,” Akin Gump associate Taylor Leighton says in a newly filed lawsuit. “I consider her to be my child.”

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