Thomas Sipp

And that's such a new experience because of how prestigious a law firm is.

And then suddenly, in the blink of an eye, in just a few days, hours even, my whole view of the firm has been completely tainted.

It's a mix of things.

This is...

giving the president a PR win after being bullied.

So it seems like I'm working at a firm that isn't as high caliber as it said it was.

But more importantly than that, so many lawyers agree that what the president is doing is wrong.

This is a threat to our constitutional fabric, to our democracy, to our civil liberties.

People should be able to be represented by their lawyers freely.

Judges should be able to make decisions, even if it goes against the president.

And to see Skadden be complicit to aid this attack, I was so ashamed to work there.

So I start actually just writing down notes and really my questions.

Some of them are practical, like how is this going to be enforced?

What will it actually look like?

And I started thinking about it and finding answers, and so the questions became statements.

And I realized what I had written was a draft of a resignation letter.

No.

Yeah, of course.

Dear colleagues and friends, I'm writing to let you know that I am leaving this firm.

There was a time when my employment here was so unlikely.