Last opening statement over

According to this report, the lawyer for Mark Kipnis, Ron Safer, argued that his client got nothing out of the non-compete agreements, and that that he was simply wrong on crucial points. Being wrong isn't a crime.

There's another report, by Romina Maurino, which includes the latest now-typically terse morning quote from Conrad Black: "I feel fine." It also includes the fact that Peter Atkinson and Jack Boultbee's lawyer finished yesterday. A Reuters report is webbed also, with a broken-in-two quote from Csr. Safer's opening statement. "'He's not perfect, perhaps he's negligent,' Safer said. But accepting a bonus for one of [the] non-compete payments in question 'was an honest mistake,' he added..."

This CBC report contians this excerpt from Csr. Safer's address: "'He [Kipnis] has had during the entire course of his employment at Hollinger at most five conversations with Conrad Black,' Safer said. 'He was an outsider.'"

An Associated Press report has been written on Csr. Safer's opening statement. It's been webbed by the Chicago Sun-Times, and it identifies Black as a "full-fledged British baron." It also discloses that, in his opening statement, Csr. Safer said that Mr. Kipnis was "unsophisticated in the ways of newspapers and corporate securities."

[UPDATE: There's also a Bloomberg report now. This report has the name of Jack Boultbee's lawyer, Gustave Newman, who himself is finished his address, so they're all over with.]

[In addition, this CBC report contains this excerpt from Csr. Safer's address: "'He [Kipnis] has had during the entire course of his employment at Hollinger at most five conversations with Conrad Black,' Safer said. 'He was an outsider.'" It also refers to "the [unnamed in that write-up] lawyer for Atkinson."]