Law firm that yielded to Trump scraped by descendants of Patriarch companies
One of the law firms that yielded President Donald Trump and agreed to provide millions in pro bono legal services to avoid an executive order that is directed to her has been admonished by the family of one of the last partners of the firm who accuse him of shrinking and collapsing Trump.
“We were completely stunned,” two granddaughters of the late judge Simon Rifkind, who was a partner of the international firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, wrote about his reaction in a letter to the president of the firm, according to a copy obtained by the New York Times.
“You traveled to Washington to give up before you started fighting,” Amy and Nina Rifkind wrote, who are lawyers in exercise, Brad Karp in a letter dated March 27.
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The almost 150 -year law firm, colloquially known as Paul Weiss, agreed to $ 40 million in free legal services to avoid being Blackball in part due to one of the former lawyers of the firm that supervises an investigation into Trump’s finances before becoming president.
Trump’s executive order was one of the various who signed against large law firms whose lawyers have been involved in the work with which he does not agree.
Three other companies, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Willkie Farr & Gallagher and Milbank, have also promised $ 100 million in free legal work for Trump to avoid legal reprisals. Some of Trump’s other specific law firms have promised to fight their challenges.
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In his letter, Amy and Nina Rifind said that her grandfather would never have turned Trump’s threat without fighting. They also emphasized that “when the country looms between a new authoritarianism and its freedoms of long data, which is good for the nation and the rule of law is good for Paul, Weiss, not vice versa.”
“We are sure that neither our grandfather, nor his colleagues with whom he built Paul, Weiss, would have negotiated a truce for themselves when the rest of the legal professional remains threatened to do their job as lawyers,” they wrote.
In the future, women asked Karp to stop “invoking our grandfather’s name to justify their actions” and that he “publicly supports law firms that oppose government attacks for clients they advise and lawyers who hire and defend the erosion of the law of the law in court.”
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More than 140 former associates and employees of Paul Weiss also signed a public letter last month that protested by the “Craven” of the company to Trump.
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“We expected the company to be a leader in defending the legal profession, the adversary system and the right to advise,” said the letter. “Instead of a sound defense of the values of democracy, we witnessed anxizing and, therefore, complicity, which is perhaps the most serious threat to the independence of the legal profession since at least the days of Senator Joseph McCarthy.”
Karp expressed his gratitude to Trump in a statement issued by the White House after the executive order was withdrawn against the company.
“We are satisfied that the president has agreed to withdraw the executive order on Paul, Weiss. We expect a committed and constructive relationship with the president and his administration,” he said.