Jared Kushner has added one of America’s leading white-collar defense lawyers to his legal team as he prepares for Special Counsel Bob Mueller’s probe into possible ties between Russia and associates of Donald Trump during the presidential campaign and transition. In a statement on Monday, Kushner’s current attorney Jamie Gorelick — a partner at the law firm WilmerHale, where Mueller also formerly worked — confirmed that his client had hired the renowned criminal lawyer Abbe Lowell. “When Bob Mueller left WilmerHale to become Special Counsel and three of our colleagues joined him, we asked Mr.