Former Davis Polk associate Ryan Powers started writing op-eds for local newspapers earlier this year criticizing the Trump administration’s agenda. A few months later, the Wall Street firm he worked for fired him.
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Powers’ story is one example of how some Big Law lawyers have had to make tough career choices since the president retook office.
On this episode of our podcast, On The Merits, Powers speaks with Bloomberg Law reporter Tatyana Monnay about what happened and the purposefully ambiguous reason Davis Polk cited for his dismissal. The firm declined to comment for this podcast.
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