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#paulweiss

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“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
nytimes.com/2025/04/02/busines

Skadden is one of two law firms that struck deals with President Trump to reverse executive orders against them.
The New York Times · Elite Law Firms’ Deals With Trump Decried by Their AssociatesBy Matthew Goldstein

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.”

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.

#PaulWeiss #Columbia #Trump

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."

publicnotice.co/p/paul-weiss-t

Public Notice · Trump's hostile takeover of big lawBy Lisa Needham

#PaulWeiss #Columbia #Trump

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."

margaretsullivan.substack.com/

American Crisis · Why we all suffer when powerful institutions yield to Trump’s bullyingBy Margaret Sullivan