Stranded In Trump’s MAGA World, Do Biglaw Partners Want To ‘Stay Rich Or Liberal’?
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For demoralized people stuck inside these firms, I think this is catharsis. I’ve always wondered, when pressed, would rich liberal lawyers choose to stay rich or liberal? Now we know.
— Kevin Carroll, a Washington, D.C., lawyer formerly of Quinn Emanuel, in comments given to the New York Times, on the left-leaning law firms that appear on Above the Law’s Biglaw Spine Index, for “what they’re doing — or not — in the face of Trump’s attack” on the legal profession. Nine firms have cut deals with the Trump administration, including Kirkland & Ellis; Latham & Watkins; Skadden; Simpson Thacher; Paul Weiss; Milbank; Willkie Farr; A&O Shearman; and Cadwalader.
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