Big Law Firm Paul Weiss Caved to Trump's Bogus Order in 4 Days. It Was Cowardly and Inexcusable.
Added 2025-03-28 08:37:58 +0000 UTCOA1143 - In the past month, Donald Trump has issued a series of truly fascist orders targeting some of the country’s best-known law firms for crimes ranging from hiring people Trump doesn’t like personally to doing some favors for special counsel Jack Smith to flagrantly hiring non-white non-men. What is actually in these orders, and how bad is it that one of leading litigation firms in the country gave in to Trump’s demands without a fight? And what will it mean for the already-overloaded immigration court system when they start going after immigration lawyers as they have also promised? Former NYC Biglaw associate (and current NYC public defender) Liz Skeen joins to help us to understand this uniquely un-American moment in American legal history.
(UPDATE: This episode was recorded shortly before news broke about the Trump administration taking action against major US law firms Wilmer Hale and Skadden Arps.)
Addressing Risks From Jenner & Block (3/25/25)
Addressing Remedial Action by Paul Weiss (3/25/25)
Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court (3/22/25)
Suspension of Security Clearances and Evaluation of Government Contracts (Covington & Burling LLP)(2/25/25)
“Complicity in the Perversion of Justice: The Role of Lawyers in Eroding the Rule of Law in the Third Reich,” Cythnia Fountaine, St. Mary’s Journal of Legal Ethics (2020)
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Did PW also hand Trump their lunch money? How embarrassing. This should go great for PW tho. Because when a billionaire lawyers up, they want a firm whose response to bullying tactics is to immediately roll over, show its pasty white belly, and agree to be placed into indentured servitude. When some corporation has to spend squillions on defending itself in court, what they're going to look for is a law firm that can't be bothered to fight for itself, let alone its clients, and couldn't figure out how to challenge the legal gibberish of THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION, i.e. the dumbest and most incompetent people of all time. That's a quality law firm right there.
Bald Weasels Scrotal Manscaping
2025-04-01 23:07:22 +0000 UTCI don't know if I've done the maths correctly, but $40m of pro-bono works out to be basically 2 partners on retainer for 5 years. cartel shit. wow.
the hog is canon, folks
2025-03-30 21:37:33 +0000 UTC
