Case 1:15-cv-07433-LAP Document 1219-9 Filed 07/15/21 Page 1 of 3 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK X Plaintiff, v. 15-cv-07433-RWS GHISLAINE MAXWELL, Defendant. X Declaration of Laura A. Menninger in Support of Defendant's Response to Motion to Compel I, Laura A. Menninger, declare as follows: 1. I am an attorney at law duly licensed in the State of New York and admitted to practice in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. I am a member of the law firm Haddon, & P.C., counsel of record for Defendant Ghislaine Maxwell in this action. I respectfully submit this Declaration in support of Ms. Maxwell's Response to Plaintiff's Motion to Compel. 2. As counsel for Ms. Maxwell, I and other attorneys of my law firm have an attorneyclient relationship with Ms. Maxwell and have created attorney work product as part of our representation of her. 3. Since no later than April 2015, Ms. Maxwell has had a joint defense agreement with Jeffrey Epstein. The joint defense agreement was entered into in anticipation of litigation. EFTA02787086