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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mstdn.social/users/GottaLaff/statuses/114242713790806119">Laffy (gottalaff@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 29-Mar-2025 08:46:17 JST</a><a href="https://mstdn.social/@GottaLaff" title="gottalaff@mstdn.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/320172-48-20250122082050.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Laffy" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Laffy</a></section><article><p>👏🏻👠</p><p>Via Anna Bower:</p><p>A Skadden attorney resigned today, citing the firm’s decision to strike a deal with <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Trump" rel="tag">#Trump</a> amid pressure campaign on law firms.</p><p>“[I]f my employer cannot stand up for the rule of law, then I cannot ethically continue to work for them,” the former Skadden lawyer, Brenna Trout Frey, wrote on LinkedIn.</p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/4810261#notice-9422154">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-03-29T08:46:17+09:00" title="Saturday, 29-Mar-2025 08:46:17 JST">about 10 days ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mstdn.social/@GottaLaff/114242713790806119" rel="external" title="Sent from mstdn.social via ActivityPub">mstdn.social</a></span></span><a href="https://mstdn.social/@GottaLaff/114242713790806119">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/4381123">Brenna Trout Frey • 3rd+
Former Attorney at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Mea...Skadden Resignation
Today the executive partner of my former firm sent us all an
"update" that attempted to convince some of the best minds in the legal profession that he did us a solid by capitulating to the Trump administration's demands for fealty and protection money. Fellow Skadden attorneys: If you agree with Jeremy London's position that the firm should not engage in "illegal DEl discrimination," should devote prestigious Skadden Fellows to the Trump administration's pet projects, and should help "politically disenfranchised groups who have not historically received legal representation from major national law firms," (taking into account the robust pro bono work that major national law firms already do), then by all means continue working there. But if that email struck you as a craven attempt to sacrifice the rule of law for self-preservation, I hope you do some soul-searching over the weekend and join me in sending a message that this is unacceptable (in whatever way you can). As one of my more eloquent former colleagues put it:
"Do not pretend that what is happening is normal or excusable. It isn't."
There is only one acceptable response from attorneys to the Trump administration's demands: The rule of law matters.
The rule of law matters. As an attorney, if my employer cannot stand up for the rule of law, then I cannot ethically continue to work for them.</a></label><br><a href="https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/114/242/713/671/156/249/original/dd5d5aec2c705e79.png" rel="external">https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/114/242/713/671/156/249/original/dd5d5aec2c705e79.png</a></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Laffy (gottalaff@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 29-Mar-2025 08:46:17 JST Laffy
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Via Anna Bower:
A Skadden attorney resigned today, citing the firm’s decision to strike a deal with #Trump amid pressure campaign on law firms.
“[I]f my employer cannot stand up for the rule of law, then I cannot ethically continue to work for them,” the former Skadden lawyer, Brenna Trout Frey, wrote on LinkedIn.
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1. Brenna Trout Frey • 3rd+ Former Attorney at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Mea... Skadden Resignation Today the executive partner of my former firm sent us all an "update" that attempted to convince some of the best minds in the legal profession that he did us a solid by capitulating to the Trump administration's demands for fealty and protection money. Fellow Skadden attorneys: If you agree with Jeremy London's position that the firm should not engage in "illegal DEl discrimination," should devote prestigious Skadden Fellows to the Trump administration's pet projects, and should help "politically disenfranchised groups who have not historically received legal representation from major national law firms," (taking into account the robust pro bono work that major national law firms already do), then by all means continue working there. But if that email struck you as a craven attempt to sacrifice the rule of law for self-preservation, I hope you do some soul-searching over the weekend and join me in sending a message that this is unacceptable (in whatever way you can). As one of my more eloquent former colleagues put it: "Do not pretend that what is happening is normal or excusable. It isn't." There is only one acceptable response from attorneys to the Trump administration's demands: The rule of law matters. The rule of law matters. As an attorney, if my employer cannot stand up for the rule of law, then I cannot ethically continue to work for them.
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