About 90 Paul Weiss former associates signed their names to a letter Monday criticizing chairman Brad Karp’s deal with the Trump administration.
Karp’s decision turned the firm into a “poster child for the administration’s efforts to silence dissent” in the legal field, the associates wrote in the letter released by nonprofit advocacy group Common Cause.
“Instead of a ringing defense of the values of democracy, we witnessed a craven surrender to, and thus complicity in, what is perhaps the gravest threat to the independence of the legal profession since at least the days of Senator Joseph McCarthy,” the associates said. ...
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