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[It’s] unprecedented in my experience for a party to withdraw their appeal, and 24 hours later to say, ‘Oops, I made a mistake.’
It seems to show a level of incompetence and chaos in the Department of Justice. They simply don’t seem to know what they’re doing, and maybe one person doesn’t speak to another person.
— Shira Scheindlin, of counsel at Boies Schiller Flexner and former judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, in comments given to the American Lawyer, concerning the Department of Justice withdrawing from its defense of its executive orders targeted against Perkins Coie, WilmerHale, Susman Godfrey, and Jenner & Block, which resulted in a flip-flop less than 24 hours later, with the DOJ crawling back to withdraw its motion to voluntarily dismiss the appeals of its cases against the Biglaw firms.
Staci Zaretsky is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she’s worked since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Bluesky, X/Twitter, and Threads, or connect with her on LinkedIn.
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Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day.
[It’s] unprecedented in my experience for a party to withdraw their appeal, and 24 hours later to say, ‘Oops, I made a mistake.’
It seems to show a level of incompetence and chaos in the Department of Justice. They simply don’t seem to know what they’re doing, and maybe one person doesn’t speak to another person.
— Shira Scheindlin, of counsel at Boies Schiller Flexner and former judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, in comments given to the American Lawyer, concerning the Department of Justice withdrawing from its defense of its executive orders targeted against Perkins Coie, WilmerHale, Susman Godfrey, and Jenner & Block, which resulted in a flip-flop less than 24 hours later, with the DOJ crawling back to withdraw its motion to voluntarily dismiss the appeals of its cases against the Biglaw firms.
Staci Zaretsky is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she’s worked since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Bluesky, X/Twitter, and Threads, or connect with her on LinkedIn.
The post ‘Incompetence And Chaos’: Former Judge Torches DOJ’s Litigation Meltdown In Biglaw Executive Orders Case appeared first on Above the Law.
