Big Law Leaders, Firms Join Legal Battle Over Immigration

Big Law leaders are speaking out and stepping up in the wake of the Trump Administration’s recently-enacted, and then rolled back, policy of separating children from their parents at the southern border.

In a New York Times op-ed Monday, Brad Karp, chairman of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, and Gary Wingens, chairman and managing partner of Lowenstein Sandler, called the administration’s current policy—which they characterized as prolonged detention of asylum-seeking families— “lawless” and said it will require “an army of lawyers to untangle.” Karp and Wingens wrote the op-ed on behalf of 34 law firm leaders.

“As a ...