Paul Weiss and Skadden

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For those who care to be informed and who can grasp nuance

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That's a dubious looking url

[Anonymous]

3 more firms have entered agreements as well. It will hit all the big firms. Lawyers cannot just quit and work in some mom and pop firm if they do complex litigation or work in certain sections. Not that easy to change.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:3 more firms have entered agreements as well. It will hit all the big firms. Lawyers cannot just quit and work in some mom and pop firm if they do complex litigation or work in certain sections. Not that easy to change.

Sure they can. Build their own skadden. They have the brains. That's key to all this. They are damn. good. lawyers. The best. They can have their own powerful firms. On the side battling Trump. Lord knows the Trump lawyers are all softheads. Should be easy to best them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:3 more firms have entered agreements as well. It will hit all the big firms. Lawyers cannot just quit and work in some mom and pop firm if they do complex litigation or work in certain sections. Not that easy to change.

Sure they can. Build their own skadden. They have the brains. That's key to all this. They are damn. good. lawyers. The best. They can have their own powerful firms. On the side battling Trump. Lord knows the Trump lawyers are all softheads. Should be easy to best them.

+100

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:3 more firms have entered agreements as well. It will hit all the big firms. Lawyers cannot just quit and work in some mom and pop firm if they do complex litigation or work in certain sections. Not that easy to change.

Sure they can. Build their own skadden. They have the brains. That's key to all this. They are damn. good. lawyers. The best. They can have their own powerful firms. On the side battling Trump. Lord knows the Trump lawyers are all softheads. Should be easy to best them.

Are you for real? Being smart has nothing to do with building a major law firm. You are clueless and naive or stupid.

[Anonymous]

I know a really cute partner at Skadden and I would 1000% date him regardless. And I'm a liberal. This is absurd.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone else feel like they can no longer countenance friends or acquaintances that continue to work at one of these two firms? There is a parent at my kid’s school that helped to broker the capitulation-to-fascism deal for Paul Weiss and I can barely contain my revulsion and disdain for this person. I don’t think I could allow my kid to go to this craven and self-serving Trumpian collaborator’s house. The legal community in DC is a relatively small world and we know lots of people at these firms. I don’t know how I am going to be able to interact with any of them going forward, now that I know that these rich and well-resourced LAWYERS decided to actively assassinate our literal democracy rather than fight a patently unconstitutional executive order in COURT. You know, court: a law firm’s natural habitat. I know that golden handcuffs and the fear of losing status and privilege all play a role here, but honestly, how selfish, treasonous, and greedy can you be and still live with yourself? Even if these firms had dissolved (which would not have happened), the lawyers working there would have still been FINE and, as a bonus, we'd all get to continue to live in a free society. Other firms chose to stand their ground and fight the executive orders, but not these avaricious cowards.

Np. Beautifully written and I completely agree. I am appalled.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Law school students are withdrawing their applications to these firms. They have written their own demise.

GOOD. I am proud to hear there are some ethical young lawyers out there

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, what do you and your spouse do that you each have 100% control and every decision squares with your own politics? Do you have family trusts since you seem to believe people can very easily just bounce from a very highly paid job? Student loans, mortgage and needs of children aside?

Not an appropriate analogy at all and you know it.

DP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DH works in one of those firms. Don’t blame all the lawyers for what just a few partners on the executive committee decided. There was no partnership vote. DH found out 2 minutes before deal went public. Many partners and associates are upset. And as for law firms that fought, they have legally won but are still having issues with the Trump admin because they cannot fully do work if security clearances are not given back and some government agencies are ghosting them. I don’t think you understand the full picture. Very small percentage of partnership wanted these outcomes.

Then DH should quit. Lawyers who don't want to be collaborators in the active and intentional destruction of democracy should quit. These are BigLaw lawyers. No one is going on food stamps because they quit Paul Weiss. How safe and rich do you have to be before you can take the smallest possible personal risk for democracy? These people's grandparents risked (and many gave) their LIVES to fight fascism. They parachuted on the the beach at Normandy and slept months outside in the freezing Belgium winter with no warm clothes, almost no food or medicine, completely surrounded by German troops. They ran toward the front with people actively shooting at them and their friends being ripped to shreds all around them. And these lawyers can't send out a few resumes? Honestly, it's disgusting.

Your baseless claims are more disgusting. Fight your own battles instead of playing keyboard warrior. Do you have any idea how many firms signed amicus briefs or the size of those firms? Educate yourself.

Dp. Hasn’t it mostly been smaller to mid sized firms who are signing on to amicus?

I agree with PP. It is disgusting and frankly embarrassing for these firms. Turns out these supposed ‘best in class’, ‘tough as nails’ litigators are a bunch of pus$ies.

[jsteele]

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