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. https://www.wsj.com/articles/you-won-you...red-11656024233 By The Editorial Board June 23, 2022 6:43 pm ET
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.-- excerpt, rest at link above --
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
This incident tells us how fractured and broken we are as a society right now: when lawyers are willing to sacrifice wins and customers for political reasons, the world is totally upside down.
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
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