You Won Your Gun Case. You’re Fired.

[jdege]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/you-won-your-gun-case-youre-fired-11656024233
You Won Your Gun Case. You’re Fired.
Kirkland & Ellis tells Paul Clement and a partner to dump their Second Amendment clients. They refuse and resign.

A 6-3 victory at the Supreme Court vindicating a constitutional right is usually cause for congratulations, but not these days at Kirkland & Ellis, the giant white-shoe law firm. The firm has rewarded partner Paul Clement for his triumph Thursday in the big New York gun-rights case (see nearby) by telling him to drop his gun clients or leave the firm.

As Mr. Clement and his litigation partner, Erin Murphy, explain nearby, they’re leaving the firm rather than dump their clients. That’s the honorable and ethical decision.

[daleamn]

Okay, so ONCE AGAIN (!!!) something that should be in the Babylon Bee or the Onion is in the Wall Street Journal and turns out to be true.
Interesting times we live in.
Thanks for posting this article and the link.

[xd ED]

Sounds like Dewey, Cheatem, & Howe just let two top notch litigators off their chains after a resounding, and highly publicized success at the SCOTUS.

[jdege]

Okay, so ONCE AGAIN (!!!) something that should be in the Babylon Bee or the Onion is in the Wall Street Journal and turns out to be true.
Interesting times we live in.
Thanks for posting this article and the link.

The way I see it, the firm’s demand is an admission that it never intended to faithfully represent the client.

They expected to lose and get paid well for doing it.

[xd ED]

Okay, so ONCE AGAIN (!!!) something that should be in the Babylon Bee or the Onion is in the Wall Street Journal and turns out to be true.
Interesting times we live in.
Thanks for posting this article and the link.

The way I see it, the firm’s demand is an admission that it never intended to faithfully represent the client.

They expected to lose and get paid well for doing it.

Interesting take.

I assumed that perhaps the managing partners got blow back from their woke clientele....an 'us-or-them' ultimatum.

[Holland&Holland]

Non story, they will make more practicing on there own anyway.

[LarryFlew]

Reminds me of an air conditioning company I worked for. Year was 1985, great salary was 37K/yr, top salesman made 100K that year, owner called him into his office and told him he couldn't have a salesman make more than the owner and the salesman would have to have his commission % reduced or he could leave the company. He left the company and his newly started business is still going strong. Company I was working for didn't make it through the next year and they had been in business for many years with 30 employees.

[Holland&Holland]

Reminds me of an air conditioning company I worked for. Year was 1985, great salary was 37K/yr, top salesman made 100K that year, owner called him into his office and told him he couldn't have a salesman make more than the owner and the salesman would have to have his commission % reduced or he could leave the company. He left the company and his newly started business is still going strong. Company I was working for didn't make it through the next year and they had been in business for many years with 30 employees.

Free market rules