Paul Weiss' chairman, Brad Karp, sent an email to employees on Sunday explaining why the law firm struck a deal with President Donald Trump last week.
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Paul Weiss alumni wrote an open letter to the firm's chairman, Brad Karp, protesting the Big Law firm's agreement with President Donald Trump. Trump has been targeting Big Law with executive action and a memo to the Department of Justice instructing Attorney General Pam Bondi to flag Big Law firms connected to "frivolous" lawsuits brought against the administration.
The law firm will provide $40 million in pro bono legal services to support Trump’s agenda after the president threatened to rescind some government contracts with the firm and its clients.
Trump's pressure campaign — which lawyers and scholars say is an unprecedented threat to the legal community — shows no sign of letting up.
Powerful Wall Street law firm Paul Weiss faced heavy criticism on Friday over a deal it struck with the White House to escape an executive order imperiling its business, even as some lawyers said the firm faced few other options.
Perkins Coie is fighting back in court, while Paul, Weiss has already capitulated. The latter firm’s chair, Brad Karp, said Trump’s order posed an existential threat to the firm, with clients ...
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Paul Weiss Chairman Brad Karp said in a letter to its lawyers and staff on Sunday that the Trump administration would not be "dictating" what free legal work the powerful Wall Street law firm would provide under a deal it struck with the White House last week.
Two of the nation’s largest law firms are taking drastically different approaches to being targeted by President Donald Trump: acceptance and defiance.
Paul Weiss, a law firm targeted by President Trump, reached a deal to settle a conflict. Many in the legal field are condemning the agreement.