Law.com International tries to avoid being U.S.-centric, as we focus primarily on what's going on in the legal world outside the U.S. But yesterday the U.S. celebrated Independence Day, commemorating the Declaration of Independence—a document that has become a moral standard and has inspired many subsequent similar declarations in other countries with the statement that "all men are created equal." And given the news of the past week in the U.S., which has made headlines all over the world, it is impossible to put our main focus elsewhere. Even law firms, which do not operate in a bubble but are generally reluctant to embrace controversy, have responded and have been driven to act.