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Bloomberg |
Willkie Farr & Gallagher is committing at least $100 million in pro bono work to causes aligned to “conservative ideals,” President Donald Trump said Tuesday.
Reuters |
More than 300 law professors and other legal groups submitted court briefs backing law firm Perkins Coie in its lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's executive order that punished the firm for...
The New York Times |
Only a few firms in the top 50, as ranked by American Lawyer, have committed their signatures.
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The law firm’s chairman, Brad Karp, capitulated to the president’s threats. The descendants of the man who wrote its high-minded principles told Mr. Karp that he had betrayed them.
The executive order put the firm at risk of a catastrophic ‘partner run’ and a death spiral.
In an email message, the law firm’s chairman, Brad Karp, reassured employees that its deal with President Trump was in keeping with its principles.
NYU legal ethics professor Stephen Gillers says the specific promises in Paul Weiss’ agreement with Trump aren’t objectionable on close review, especially when weighed against the possibly existential cost of litigating.
The legal profession is not resisting authoritarianism. It is formatting it. Coaching it. Polishing it for public consumption.
A day after President Donald Trump announced that Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison chair Brad Karp had agreed to a deal to rescind an executive order, the law firm was getting pummeled with criticism for capitulating to the president.
I don’t have a large budget for outside counsel, but I definitely won’t be spending it with law firms who don’t stand up for themselves in the face of injustice," Ray Everett, general counsel for health care at TopCon Corp.
By Mike Scarcella, Sara Merken and Karen Sloan NEW YORK (Reuters) -Powerful Wall Street law firm Paul Weiss faced heavy criticism on Friday over a deal it struck with the White House to escape an executive order imperiling its business,
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More than 140 alumni of Paul Weiss signed an open letter to chairman Brad Karp.