Boutique legislation agency Dunn Isaacson Rhee was recently founded by former Paul, Weiss companions Karen Dunn, Invoice Isaacson, Jessica Phillips, and Jeannie Rhee. That reality can be massive information to Biglaw watchers in fully peculiar occasions, however we reside within the 12 months of our lord 2025 and nothing is peculiar. The companions exited Paul, Weiss due to the cowardly deal the agency struck with the Trump administration.
In March Paul, Weiss shocked the world of Biglaw once they became the first agency to bend a knee to Donald Trump to get out from beneath an onerous Executive Order designed to extract a financial penalty for being affiliated with instances and causes that displeased the president. Since then, the agency has been experiencing the implications of their actions — the cope with Trump keeps getting worse, there’ve been congressional investigations, client concerns, and so many legal professionals bailing on the firm to distance themselves from the craven capitulation.
And Dunn Isaacson Rhee is the place a *bunch* of those fleeing attorneys have landed. Based on reporting by Bloomberg Regulation, companions Martha Goodman and Amy Mauser have joined that listing — making them the eighth and ninth companions to go away Paul, Weiss for Dunn Isaacson — to not point out all of the associates which have additionally joined the brand new boutique.
All these departures are precisely why Paul, Weiss chair Brad Karp has been lowered to assuring his companions that EVERYTHING IS FINE. This can be a actual run on litigation expertise and is the precise reverse of reassuring,
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