Saturday, May 24, 2025

Four Major Partners Exit Firm That Bent the Knee

A prominent Democratic lawyer and three other major partners are leaving the law firm Paul, Weiss to start their own firm, according to an email obtained by Politico. The departures come two months after Paul, Weiss entered a deal with the White House to provide $40 million in pro-bono legal work to causes supported by President Donald Trump in exchange for the removal of an executive order that firm Chair Brad Karp said "could easily have destroyed our firm."

Posted by retort at 11:42 AM | 3 COMMENTS | permalink

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Who wants to work for cowards?

#1 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-05-24 11:53 AM

Amen DB. They're more than willing to rip most anybody a new a-whole and destroy them but when someone comes for them? Yazza Yazza King trump!

#2 | Posted by Yodagirl at 2025-05-24 12:48 PM

Putting the Quid in Quid Pro Quo.

The Latin root for "extortion" is extorquere, which means "to twist out, wrench out, or obtain by force". It's a compound word from "ex-" (out, away) and "torquere" (to twist). The noun derived from this verb is "extortio", which translates to "a twisting out, extorting".

#3 | Posted by randomcanyon at 2025-05-25 09:37 AM

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