Are we talking about Trump's vendetta against Covington and Perkins Coie
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Anonymous
Greedy people tend to be unprincipled and cowardice. |
Anonymous
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The more I think about this, the more I am sure there is more to it than mere capitulation. It would not surprise me if, when called upon to represent one of Trump's "causes", there is a chorus of "We can't. We are conflicted."
I have spent 35 years as a lawyer either in BigLaw or hiring them and have yet to meet one who is stupid. Yes, they are protecting their bottom line, as most people are. But I can rarely remember when a BigLaw lawyer didn't have a way out. |
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Perkins is losing senior people
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/perkins-coie-government-contracts-lawyer-leaves-firm-it-battles-trump-order-2025-04-14/ |
Anonymous
A person. "A former leader of Perkins Coie's government contracts group has left the firm" |
Anonymous
I’m at a big law that did not capitulate and seeing lots of resumes from people trying to leave the capitulating firms because they are unhappy with their firms bending the knee. |
Anonymous
If the firm says we can’t or we’re conflicted, it’s going to end well for them. They have made a deal with the mob boss. And while I have been in biglaw for a fraction of the time that you have (but still objectively a long time), I believe you are overestimating many of them here. They are used to people who mostly follow the rules and deviations are small compared to what’s happening now. |
Anonymous
Someone said this weeks ago and I’ve come around to their thinking, there is a huge personality difference in corporate lawyers and litigators approach this. |
Anonymous
Not surprising. Also I wouldn't be surprised if the firms that did capitulate are all conflcited out from representing Donnie's "causes". Conflicts that their clients won't waive. |
Anonymous
Per their court filing, government contracts is 40% of the firm’s revenue, connect the dots. This was not a junior associate who left. |
Anonymous
| Government contracts was 40% of PC’s revenue, the partner who left may take a lot of those clients to VE. |
Anonymous
I mean PC may strike a deal at some point. It’s not just Feds but government contractors, law firms and NGOs who have been thrown into term oil to an extent. The EEO attack is just getting started. Some clients will head toward certainty is the reality. |
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| turmoil, weird autocorrect |
Anonymous
Seriously? I work in government contracts law and have never run into them. That's shocking to me. |
Anonymous
Where are you getting that? The article says there are only 9 people in the government contracts group. The firm has well over 1,000 lawyers. How could 9 people account for 40% of the firm revenue? That makes no sense at all. |