Credit: Lightspring/Shutterstock.com Lowenstein Sandler Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison The New York Times It struck me that somebody had to stick up for the private bar and say that an administration that claims to be speaking for the law is not actually abiding by protections the Constitution provides for citizens and noncitizens," he said. Gary Wingens. Kids in Need of Defense 34 law firms

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We believe this kind of stance is consistent with who we are," he said. "It's who we've always been." We've also been getting many, many emails from our employees about how heartened they are [to be at a] firm that was willing to take a stand on this issue." This is not the first time in recent years that both Wingens and Paul Weiss' Karp have waded into national conversations over divisive social and political issues. Karp and Paul Weiss partner Christopher Boehning had another New York Times op-ed earlier this year urging support for legislation repealing civil immunity for gun sellers and manufacturers. While that missive was published in the aftermath of the deadly March school shooting in Parkland, Florida, Karp first mobilized his firm after the 2016 mass shooting in an Orlando nightclub, firing off a firmwide email and committing to a partnership with the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence. Karp and Wingens both hit the “send” button again after Neo-Nazis marched in Charlottesville, Virginia, last August, with Karp telling employees that the firm would work to “ensure that the rights, dignities and freedoms of all our citizens are fully respected and vindicated.” Wingens told the firm after Charlottesville that name partner Alan Lowenstein had built Lowenstein on the “foundation of his strongly held belief in equality and social justice.”