Boutique regulation agency Dunn Isaacson Rhee was lately based by former Paul, Weiss companions Karen Dunn, Invoice Isaacson, Jessica Phillips, and Jeannie Rhee. That truth can be huge information to Biglaw watchers in utterly abnormal instances, however we dwell within the 12 months of our lord 2025 and nothing is abnormal. The companions exited Paul, Weiss due to the cowardly deal the agency struck with the Trump administration.
In March Paul, Weiss shocked the world of Biglaw once they grew to become the primary agency to bend a knee to Donald Trump to get out from below an onerous Govt Order designed to extract a monetary penalty for being affiliated with circumstances and causes that displeased the president. Since then, the agency has been experiencing the results of their actions — the take care of Trump retains getting worse, there’ve been congressional investigations, consumer considerations, and so many legal professionals bailing on the agency to distance themselves from the craven capitulation.
And Dunn Isaacson Rhee is the place a *bunch* of these fleeing attorneys have landed. In response to reporting by Bloomberg Legislation, companions Martha Goodman and Amy Mauser have joined that listing — making them the eighth and ninth companions to go away Paul, Weiss for Dunn Isaacson — to not point out all of the associates which have additionally joined the brand new boutique.
These kind of departures are precisely why Paul, Weiss chair Brad Karp has been lowered to assuring his companions that EVERYTHING IS FINE. This can be a actual run on litigation expertise and is the precise reverse of reassuring,
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