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If the [Biglaw] companies had simply caught collectively nobody could be on this robust place of getting to capitulate or undergo penalties. Tremendous disenchanted in Paul Weiss, Latham, Kirkland, and so on. and so they have been all instantly taken off my listing of locations to work.
— A summer time affiliate from Fish & Richardson, in response to a query posed within the American Lawyer’s annual Summer time Affiliate Satisfaction Survey. A summer time affiliate from Cahill Gordon echoed these sentiments, saying, “It’s embarrassing and disheartening when pitbull legislation companies cower. Purchasers ought to demand extra from their companies.“ When requested how a lot they agreed with the sentiment that the authorized occupation’s independence was being challenged by the Trump administration, about two-thirds of respondents mentioned “agreed” or “strongly agreed.”

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