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#paulweiss

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Nonilex

“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

The New York Times · Elite Law Firms’ Deals With Trump Decried by Their AssociatesBy Matthew Goldstein
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Nonilex

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.

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Kevin E. Walsh

#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/

margaretsullivan.substack.comWhy we all suffer when powerful institutions yield to Trump’s bullyingPlus, my answer to ‘who writes those headlines?' and a mea culpa
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petersuber

Kudos to the American Bar Association (#ABA, @abaesq) for condemning Donald #Trump's efforts to intimidate and control lawyers and law firms.
nytimes.com/2025/03/21/busines

Kudos to the hundreds of associates at corporate law firms calling on their employers to do the same and disavow the obsequious example of #PaulWeiss.
docs.google.com/document/d/18o

Kudos to Rachel Cohen for her conditional public resignation from her firm if it does not act.
linkedin.com/posts/rachelxcohe

Kudos to #MarcElias for speaking out on behalf of his firm.
elias.law/newsroom/press-relea

President Trump said he would drop an executive order he signed against the law firm Paul Weiss.
The New York Times · Paul Weiss Deal With Trump Faces Backlash From Legal ProfessionBy Danielle Kaye
#USLaw#USPol#USPolitics
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Zhi Zhu 🕸️

"Since the #PaulWeiss settlement, some #lawyers now expect that a united front in #opposition to Trump’s actions will never materialize...

“It was so cowardly and despicable,” said the Perkins associate. “They hung us out to dry. If the big firms had stuck together, I think we would have gotten through this. There’s strength in numbers... But now what? Firms have to either pledge fealty to #Trump or get destroyed?”"
thebulwark.com/p/disgusted-bet

Headline from The Bulwark: ‘Disgusted’ and ‘Betrayed’—Legal World Shaken by Trump’s Extortion The decision by Paul Weiss to settle with the president has sent shockwaves through the firm and the broader legal community. by Sam Stein Mar 21, 2025
#DonaldTrump#Corruption#GOP
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Zhi Zhu 🕸️

" #History has shown repeatedly that appeasing #authoritarianism only invites more aggressive demands. The #MAGA movement’s pattern of escalating bullying after each successful intimidation is well documented...

as if to immediately prove that capitulating won’t lead #Trump to stop the bullying... despite #PaulWeiss’ chairman... spending days working out the exact wording of the “agreement” w/Trump people, the statement that Trump posted? Wasn’t what they agreed to."
techdirt.com/2025/03/21/paul-w

Text from article(edited for length): History has shown repeatedly that appeasing authoritarianism only invites more aggressive demands. The MAGA movement’s pattern of escalating bullying after each successful intimidation is well documented. Paul Weiss’s surrender, especially after watching Perkins Coie successfully obtain an immediate restraining order against an identical threat, signals to every would-be autocrat that even our most powerful legal institutions can be cowed through raw intimidation. And, as if to immediately prove that capitulating won’t lead Trump to stop the bullying, soon after the surrender was announced, the NY Times revealed that despite Paul Weiss’ chairman, the powerful Brad Karp, spending days working out the exact wording of the “agreement” with Trump people, the statement that Trump posted? Wasn’t what they agreed to. Trump simply added in all that nonsense about DEI... Trump altered the deal. And everyone has to know he may alter it further. The damage here goes far beyond one law firm’s reputation. Paul Weiss has just helped normalize government compelled speech and association, while providing a blueprint for future attacks on the independence of the legal profession. Any lawyer who remains at the firm after this isn’t just accepting a resume stain — they’re becoming complicit in the steady erosion of core constitutional principles that the legal profession is supposed to defend.
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