“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

Georgetown Law student group canceling recruiting event with Skadden, Arps.

This is how you do it!

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.”

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.

Kudos to the American Bar Association (#ABA, @abaesq) for condemning Donald #Trump's efforts to intimidate and control lawyers and law firms.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/business/paul-weiss-trump-reaction.html

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.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/18ojmZhk6XmYM_gQJhl1KAhDecdcerly9EvmxJu8A5rI/edit

Kudos to Rachel Cohen for her conditional public resignation from her firm if it does not act.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rachelxcohen_i-just-put-in-conditional-notice-at-skadden-activity-7308686339435044864-gmb9?rcm=ACoAACPEcqwBiNGFvpUWqN2ktHkTvmcrqG3_n5g