Biglaw Surrenders Were Worse Than We Thought

Despite protestations that its deal with the Trump administration didn’t forfeit the firm’s independence, Paul Weiss reportedly seriously debated letting Stephen Miller review the firm’s webpage edits according to the New York Times. The same reporting turned up the $3.5 million the firm spent to make its first openly transgender partner leave quietly. Elsewhere, Biglaw is now the largest employer of new law grads, even though it’s a bigger slice of a smaller pie, with first-year hiring down for the first time since 2014. And having lost the birthright citizenship case, Donald Trump signed new executive orders explaining that he won it, moving one antecedent about six words to the left and calling it a holding. It’s kicking off a string of proclamations from the White House that it’s the real winner of cases it decidedly lost.

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