Ruth Marcus

Hi, can I get a meeting to talk about this pending indictment? Hi, can I get a meeting to explain why you should approve my client's umpty ump billion dollar merger? Your clients are at risk of losing their government contracts. You can no longer have security clearances in cases where you need those in order to be able to represent your clients.

Hi, can I get a meeting to talk about this pending indictment? Hi, can I get a meeting to explain why you should approve my client's umpty ump billion dollar merger? Your clients are at risk of losing their government contracts. You can no longer have security clearances in cases where you need those in order to be able to represent your clients.

Hi, can I get a meeting to talk about this pending indictment? Hi, can I get a meeting to explain why you should approve my client's umpty ump billion dollar merger? Your clients are at risk of losing their government contracts. You can no longer have security clearances in cases where you need those in order to be able to represent your clients.

Oh, by the way, we won't hire lawyers for government jobs after that. And it's – many lawyers go to private firms and then want to go become prosecutors or something after that. So it's basically saying – Nice little law firm business you have there, $2.6 billion a year in the case of Paul Weiss. It'd be really a shame if all your clients left you and it crumbled before your eyes.

Oh, by the way, we won't hire lawyers for government jobs after that. And it's – many lawyers go to private firms and then want to go become prosecutors or something after that. So it's basically saying – Nice little law firm business you have there, $2.6 billion a year in the case of Paul Weiss. It'd be really a shame if all your clients left you and it crumbled before your eyes.

Oh, by the way, we won't hire lawyers for government jobs after that. And it's – many lawyers go to private firms and then want to go become prosecutors or something after that. So it's basically saying – Nice little law firm business you have there, $2.6 billion a year in the case of Paul Weiss. It'd be really a shame if all your clients left you and it crumbled before your eyes.

The fear was that clients would start running to the doors. And when you said, OK, fine, you'll lose some clients, but really seriously, can't you take a hit? You started to hear words like death spiral. And it is true that immediately after these orders are issued against law firms, other law firms were doing two things.

The fear was that clients would start running to the doors. And when you said, OK, fine, you'll lose some clients, but really seriously, can't you take a hit? You started to hear words like death spiral. And it is true that immediately after these orders are issued against law firms, other law firms were doing two things.

The fear was that clients would start running to the doors. And when you said, OK, fine, you'll lose some clients, but really seriously, can't you take a hit? You started to hear words like death spiral. And it is true that immediately after these orders are issued against law firms, other law firms were doing two things.

They were suggesting to the law firm's clients that, gee, it might be better off to have a firm that isn't on the government blacklist. And they were suggesting to some of the really highest paid and most highest billing partners at these law firms that, gee, it might be better for you if you weren't tied to this firm that's on the government blacklist.

They were suggesting to the law firm's clients that, gee, it might be better off to have a firm that isn't on the government blacklist. And they were suggesting to some of the really highest paid and most highest billing partners at these law firms that, gee, it might be better for you if you weren't tied to this firm that's on the government blacklist.

They were suggesting to the law firm's clients that, gee, it might be better off to have a firm that isn't on the government blacklist. And they were suggesting to some of the really highest paid and most highest billing partners at these law firms that, gee, it might be better for you if you weren't tied to this firm that's on the government blacklist.

So why don't you take your book of business and come to us?

So why don't you take your book of business and come to us?

So why don't you take your book of business and come to us?

Their rationale was that how can you live with yourself if you agree to settle something, settle a matter in which you have done absolutely nothing wrong? Take, for example, one of the charges in the indictment. It's not obviously a technical indictment.

Their rationale was that how can you live with yourself if you agree to settle something, settle a matter in which you have done absolutely nothing wrong? Take, for example, one of the charges in the indictment. It's not obviously a technical indictment.

Their rationale was that how can you live with yourself if you agree to settle something, settle a matter in which you have done absolutely nothing wrong? Take, for example, one of the charges in the indictment. It's not obviously a technical indictment.

of Wilmer Cutler and Pickering, which is one of the firms that got the executive order, was that it had the temerity not just to hire Bob Mueller in the first place, but to take him back after he served as special counsel investigating Russia and the first Trump administration. In election interference, yeah. And I think the law firms were unwilling to—

of Wilmer Cutler and Pickering, which is one of the firms that got the executive order, was that it had the temerity not just to hire Bob Mueller in the first place, but to take him back after he served as special counsel investigating Russia and the first Trump administration. In election interference, yeah. And I think the law firms were unwilling to—