Blake Lively hires lawyer who worked with Jeffrey Epstein’s victims ahead of Justin Baldoni trial

Blake Lively has hired Sigrid McCawley, the high-profile attorney who worked with Jeffrey Epstein’s victims ahead of her long-awaited trial against Justin Baldoni.

Per People, her primary role will be handling communications with the public and the media on key matters related to the case.

“It is a privilege to get to work with Blake Lively’s world class legal team on a case that at its core is about a woman who was subjected to a hostile work environment and is being attacked for standing up to protect herself and other female co-workers,” McCawley, the managing partner of Boies Schiller Flexner, said in a statement shared Friday.

McCawley will be joining Mike Gottlieb and Esra Hudson, who are currently preparing to face off against Baldoni’s lawyers in the Southern District of New York.

“We are thrilled that Sigrid has joined Blake’s legal team in this important role handling our public-facing communications,” Gottlieb and Hudson told the outlet in response to the news.

“We recruited Sigrid based on her many years of work speaking truth to power, including her courageous representation of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims, and have no doubt her experience will serve the team well.”

Among some of her most high-profile cases, McCawley represented Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s abuse survivors, including the late Virginia Giuffre.

She also worked with Leslie Sloane, Lively’s publicist, after Baldoni counterused her. The case was dismissed in June 2025.

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