Credit: Jiw Ingka/Adobe Stock It's Impossible For Law Firms to be Totally Apolitical
The Global Lawyer: As much as law firms try to remain apolitical, they can often find they are judged to have picked a side even by trying to stay out of the debate. They choose by not choosing.
March 27, 2022 at 07:11 PM
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The Global Lawyer
Imagine a world where law firms were purposely political. A world in which some always advised on behalf of certain governments and not others. Where lawyers would choose to join a Democrat or a Republican firm. Where it was rare to have any major legal institution defend oligarchs, oil giants and tobacco companies from claims of any kind.
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Law Firms Mentioned
- Baker McKenzie
- Willkie Farr & Gallagher
- Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft
- Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
- Latham & Watkins
- White & Case
- Kirkland & Ellis
- Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson
- Dechert
- Mayer Brown
- Cooley
- McDermott Will & Emery
- Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Warton & Garrison
- Proskauer Rose
- King & Spalding
- Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
- Shearman & Sterling LLP
- Winston & Strawn LLP
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