A top law firm chairman’s controversial capitulation to President Donald Trump’s demands created staunch internal divisions, according to a new bombshell report.
At the start of his second presidency, Trump signed an executive order targeting top law firms, including Paul Weiss, as he was irate that they represented his political opponents or had attorneys who had been involved in investigations against him.
Brad Karp, the ousted chairman at the Paul Weiss law firm, tried and failed to please the firm’s employees in the weeks after the order came down as he attempted to strike a deal with the White House rather than challenge it in court, a new report in the New York Times details.
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