Sullivan Chair Worries Golden Era’s Over: New York Brief

Q&A: Sullivan & Cromwell Chair Giuffra

Sullivan & Cromwell co-chair Robert Giuffra Jr. worries that the legal industry’s golden age is over.

“Maybe everybody will just have dueling briefs that’ll come out of some Elon Musk-created AI system,” he wondered of the industry’s future. “I hope not, but who knows what the future holds.”

A nearly four-decade litigator at the Wall Street firm, Giuffra is representing President Donald Trump in appeals of Trump’s hush-money conviction and civil fraud penalty. His past work includes representing Goldman Sachs in litigation arising out of the financial crisis.

In this week’s Q&A, he ...