"Afterward, a prominent authority on the business of law mused to me that we don't level enough blame on the rest of the legal industry for failing to organize and take collective action. Paul Weiss and the other capitulating firms found themselves in a classic Prisoner's Dilemma and found that the faster they made a deal, the better the terms."
"Tomorrow offers something of a second bite at the apple for lawyers. "Lawyers March for Democracy" kicks off tomorrow at 1 p.m. outside the Supreme Court. The People's Parity Project organized the event, backed by Alliance for Justice, the American Constitution Society, Lambda Legal, and a coalition of other progressive legal organizations to "call out the Trump administration's lawlessness and the Supreme Court's complicity in Trump's authoritarianism.""
"Through all of the upheavals of the early months of Trump's second term, the Supreme Court has not only been complicit but has actively participated in Trump's authoritarian project, siding with the administration over and over again and allowing him to continue blatantly unconstitutional actions without any public legal justification. Why start at the Supreme Court? Remember the humble ask of the anonymous federal judges who asked the Supreme"
At a New York Bar Foundation gala, a lawyer heckled Paul Weiss chair Brad Karp over the firm's deal with the Trump administration. Observers say many firms capitulated because of a Prisoner's Dilemma: faster deals produced better terms, but collective adherence to principle would yield a better outcome if no one defected. The legal industry lacked a unified sense of purpose, particularly in Biglaw, so firms could not rely on coordinated resistance. Progressive legal organizations organized "Lawyers March for Democracy" outside the Supreme Court to call out the administration's lawlessness and the Court's complicity. The march aims to publicly demonstrate legal community solidarity in defending the rule of law.
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