The chairman of Paul Weiss told firm employees that his deal with the Trump administration for free legal services in exchange for rescinding last week’s executive order is consistent with the elite law firm’s values.
“The commitments reaffirmed today are consistent with Judge Simon H. Rifkind’s 1963 statement of firm principles,” Brad Karp said in a firmwide email Thursday evening, which was reviewed by Bloomberg Law.
Rifkind was a federal judge who left the bench in 1950 to join the firm and expanded the firm’s litigation department.
“We believe in maintaining, by affirmative efforts, a membership of partners and associates ...
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