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Democracy Matters :verified:<p>I hope all remaining law firms have learned that there's no winning when you cave to a bully.</p><p>Trump’s deals with Big Law are shakedowns in ‘pro bono’ clothing<br><a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/5254645-trumps-deals-with-big-law-are-shakedowns-in-pro-bono-clothing/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/</span><span class="invisible">5254645-trumps-deals-with-big-law-are-shakedowns-in-pro-bono-clothing/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DoNotObey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DoNotObey</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PaulWeiss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaulWeiss</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SkaddenArps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SkaddenArps</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LawFirms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LawFirms</span></a></p>
Europe Says<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/1981557/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/1981557/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> Justice Department suggests US agencies are free to disregard judge’s order in law firm dispute <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/AndrewWeissmann" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AndrewWeissmann</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>business</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DCWire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DCWire</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ExecutiveOrders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ExecutiveOrders</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/GeneralNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GeneralNews</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/GeorgeWBush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GeorgeWBush</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/GovernmentBudgets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GovernmentBudgets</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/JohnBates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JohnBates</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Legislation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Legislation</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/LeoAnthonyGallagher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LeoAnthonyGallagher</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PamBondi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PamBondi</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PaulWeiss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaulWeiss</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/RobertMueller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RobertMueller</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/RussellVought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RussellVought</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/U" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>U</span></a>.S.DepartmentOfJustice <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/WashingtonNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WashingtonNews</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/world" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>world</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/WorldNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WorldNews</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/WorldTopics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WorldTopics</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>“Last month, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PaulWeiss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaulWeiss</span></a> removed a web page that had highlighted its ‘leadership in a court-ordered effort to find parents deported by the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> administration &amp; 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 <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a> people.”</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tyranny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tyranny</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/business/trump-law-firms-skadden-paul-weiss.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare&amp;sgrp=p&amp;pvid=34A166BD-CC07-49F3-8F2B-BF0B1A9687EE" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/04/02/busines</span><span class="invisible">s/trump-law-firms-skadden-paul-weiss.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare&amp;sgrp=p&amp;pvid=34A166BD-CC07-49F3-8F2B-BF0B1A9687EE</span></a></p>
Democracy Matters :verified:<p>Capitulation's a bitch!</p><p>'Implore you': Grandkids of famed judge tell firm that caved to Trump to stop using name<br><a href="https://www.rawstory.com/trump-law-firms-2671663055/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">rawstory.com/trump-law-firms-2</span><span class="invisible">671663055/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PaulWeiss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaulWeiss</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Capitulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Capitulation</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TrumpLawFirm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpLawFirm</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a></p>
BronMason<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@GottaLaff" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>GottaLaff</span></a></span> </p><p>The lawyers bar association should let Hunter Biden alone! <br>He is obviously an UPGRADE, compared to the way the white shoe law firms are falling all over themselves to work for free for a convicted felonious extortionist like trump.<br><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/hunterBiden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hunterBiden</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/skadden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>skadden</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/paulweiss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paulweiss</span></a></p>
Democracy Matters :verified:<p>Georgetown Law student group canceling recruiting event with Skadden, Arps.</p><p>This is how you do it!</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/RIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RIP</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SkaddenArps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SkaddenArps</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PaulWeiss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaulWeiss</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TrumpSychophants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpSychophants</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DoNotObey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DoNotObey</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a></p>
Democracy Matters :verified:<p>DO NOT OBEY IN ADVANCE!!!</p><p>“It's almost like giving bullies your lunch money encourages them to shake you down tomorrow." </p><p>-- Noah Shachtman, Rolling Stone</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FightFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FightFascism</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TheTimeIsNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheTimeIsNow</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PaulWeiss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaulWeiss</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SkaddenArps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SkaddenArps</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a></p>
Democracy Matters :verified:<p>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. </p><p>And they failed their clients, they failed the law, and they failed our country. Cowards. </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PaulWeiss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaulWeiss</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SkaddenArps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SkaddenArps</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a></p>
Democracy Matters :verified:<p>What does it mean to be a lawyer if the administration can make demands on how a firm runs its business?</p><p>Paul Weiss “is merely rearranging the proverbial deck chairs on the Titanic,” Michigan’s attorney general,<br>Dana Nessel, wrote on X. “With this administration, there will be no legitimate legal system and no need for actual lawyers.”</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/RIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RIP</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PaulWeiss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaulWeiss</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TrumpSychophants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpSychophants</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FirePaulWeiss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirePaulWeiss</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/QuitPaulWeiss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QuitPaulWeiss</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a></p>
Democracy Matters :verified:<p>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. </p><p>And they failed their clients, they failed the law, and they failed our country. Cowards. </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PaulWeiss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaulWeiss</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SkaddenArps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SkaddenArps</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Updates on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/LawFirms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LawFirms</span></a> targeted by <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>:</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WilmerHale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WilmerHale</span></a> [employed Robert Mueller] — Judge Leon, a George W. Bush appointee, set a 4:30 PM hearing</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JennerBlock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JennerBlock</span></a> [employed Andrew Weissmann] — Judge Bates, another a George W. Bush appointee, set a 5:45PM hearing</p><p>Last Fri, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PerkinsCoie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PerkinsCoie</span></a> [worked for Hillary Clinton] got a TRO while the case moves forward.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PaulWeiss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaulWeiss</span></a>, cut a deal w/Trump last month, promising $40M in pro bono legal services &amp; to hire an outside consultant to review employment practices.</p>
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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

The New York Times · Paul Weiss Deal With Trump Faces Backlash From Legal ProfessionBy Danielle Kaye
#USLaw#USPol#USPolitics
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"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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" #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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