An open letter to the authorized group, organized by Delaware Legal professional Normal Kathleen Jennings and signed by 21 state attorneys common, urged companies to “refuse to bow to unlawful and unconstitutional threats of retribution for having the temerity to symbolize shoppers and circumstances opposing the administration.”
“Legal professionals will not be spectators to the Structure; we’re its brokers. We can’t enable the President to scare regulation companies and legal professionals into silence,” the letter, which was launched Friday, learn.
Final week, Skadden, Arps affiliate Rachel Cohen submitted a conditional resignation in a scathing letter urging her agency to face in opposition to Trump’s makes an attempt to intimidate main regulation companies. Her letter got here after one other agency, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, caved to the administration and provided $40 million in free authorized companies, revoked their very own DEI practices, and offered considered one of their very own legal professionals down the river, just because he’d as soon as investigated Trump for alleged monetary crimes. The Trump administration rescinded its order in opposition to the agency, and in mild of the massive professional bono dedication from Skadden, Arps, it seems Paul, Weiss made away like bandits.
