I hope all remaining law firms have learned that there's no winning when you cave to a bully.
Trump’s deals with Big Law are shakedowns in ‘pro bono’ clothing
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/5254645-trumps-deals-with-big-law-are-shakedowns-in-pro-bono-clothing/
https://www.europesays.com/1981557/ Justice Department suggests US agencies are free to disregard judge’s order in law firm dispute #AndrewWeissmann #business #DCWire #DonaldTrump #ExecutiveOrders #GeneralNews #GeorgeWBush #GovernmentBudgets #JohnBates #Legislation #LeoAnthonyGallagher #News #PamBondi #PaulWeiss #Politics #RobertMueller #RussellVought #U.S.DepartmentOfJustice #WashingtonNews #world #WorldNews #WorldTopics
"If you have a weak #liberal class then you have fascism. We're seeing it. If Trump is a #dictator, if he is a #Hitler like character, then what is #Columbia? What is #PaulWeiss? What are they? If he's Hitler then aren't they Nazis?"
Margaret Kimberley's conversation with Jamarl Thomas.
“Last month, #PaulWeiss removed a web page that had highlighted its ‘leadership in a court-ordered effort to find parents deported by the #Trump administration & to reunify families.’ Visitors to the page now get an error message, as do users looking for any mention of Paul Weiss's pro bono work on behalf of #LGBTQ people.”
#law #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny #immigration #CivilRights #FreeSpeech
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/business/trump-law-firms-skadden-paul-weiss.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=34A166BD-CC07-49F3-8F2B-BF0B1A9687EE
Capitulation's a bitch!
'Implore you': Grandkids of famed judge tell firm that caved to Trump to stop using name
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-law-firms-2671663055/
The lawyers bar association should let Hunter Biden alone!
He is obviously an UPGRADE, compared to the way the white shoe law firms are falling all over themselves to work for free for a convicted felonious extortionist like trump.
#hunterBiden
#skadden #paulweiss
Georgetown Law student group canceling recruiting event with Skadden, Arps.
This is how you do it!
DO NOT OBEY IN ADVANCE!!!
“It's almost like giving bullies your lunch money encourages them to shake you down tomorrow."
-- Noah Shachtman, Rolling Stone
Paul, Weiss and Skadden, Arps prostituted themselves and ruined their firms—150 and 77 years old—for nothing. All they needed to do was wait a few days.
And they failed their clients, they failed the law, and they failed our country. Cowards.
What does it mean to be a lawyer if the administration can make demands on how a firm runs its business?
Paul Weiss “is merely rearranging the proverbial deck chairs on the Titanic,” Michigan’s attorney general,
Dana Nessel, wrote on X. “With this administration, there will be no legitimate legal system and no need for actual lawyers.”
Paul Weiss and Skadden, Arps prostituted themselves and ruined their firms—150 and 77 years old—for nothing. All they needed to do was wait a few days.
And they failed their clients, they failed the law, and they failed our country. Cowards.
Updates on #LawFirms targeted by #Trump:
#WilmerHale [employed Robert Mueller] — Judge Leon, a George W. Bush appointee, set a 4:30 PM hearing
#JennerBlock [employed Andrew Weissmann] — Judge Bates, another a George W. Bush appointee, set a 5:45PM hearing
Last Fri, #PerkinsCoie [worked for Hillary Clinton] got a TRO while the case moves forward.
#PaulWeiss, cut a deal w/Trump last month, promising $40M in pro bono legal services & to hire an outside consultant to review employment practices.
And more from Lisa Needham:
"It certainly isn’t great that a major American law firm agreed to a deal so vague that the parties don’t even seem to agree on the terms. Paul, Weiss gave away its honor and autonomy for an agreement so broad and undefined it could have been sketched out on a napkin. Karp’s Sunday letter to the firm didn’t address the discrepancies at all, leaving everyone still wondering what, exactly, Paul, Weiss is doing."
From Margaret Sullivan today:
"Institutions with resources must resist thuggish bullying ... I argue that some principles are so central to an institution’s mission that to bargain over them should be unthinkable.
There are people and institutions who are resisting — the Associated Press, the law firm Perkins Coie, Georgetown University Law School, and many others — and they set a righteous example for us all."
https://margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/what-we-lose-when-powerful-institutions
A post contrasting Paul, Weiss’s capitulation with the principled resignation of a young Skadden associate when BigLaw chose Chamberlain over Churchill. The administration’s attacks on the legal profession will now only accelerate.
#DemocraticParty #PaulWeiss #Trump
Is the Paul, Weiss law firm not only the latest Trump vassal, but also the Democratic establishment and shadow administration in waiting since Adlai Stevenson?
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-the-democrats-corporate
https://www.europesays.com/1937871/ Read the Email Paul Weiss Chairman Sent Staffers After Trump Deal #america #business #client #DeiPolicy #email #EmailPaulWeissChairman #ExecutiveOrder #firm #investigation #lawyer #PaulWeiss #PoliticalRival #resolution #SecurityClearance #trump #TrumpAdministration #TrumpDeal #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #US #USA
Compliance begets more bullying. Thanks, Paul Weiss!
'This needs to stop now': Elon Musk and MAGA 'take aim' at another huge law firm
https://www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-takes-on-skadden/
“The only thing we have to fear…
Is fear itself!”
Packs a bigger punch when you witness it happening in real time.
Our ancestors have been insulted by the country they sacrificed everything for!
What cowardice.
https://www.europesays.com/1936550/ Law Firm Targeted by Trump Says It Won’t Change Who It Represents #administration #BigLaw #CecilliaWang #chair #DemocracyForward #DonaldTrump #elias #FederalCourt #FridayWhiteHouseMemo #LawFirm #LegalProfession #PaulWeiss #PresidentTrump #rule #StatementSaturday #trump
