Bye-Bye, Biglaw. You’re just ‘too woke.’
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I felt Big Law had become too big, too woke, and a lot of the values that were important to me during my career in Washington—the values that were in law firms, the collegiality, the focus on the interests of the client—I thought it would be good to try to recapture some of those values.
— Former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr, offering commentary to the Daily Business Review on why he left Biglaw behind to start his own firm after serving as AG for Presidents George H.W. Bush and Donald J. Trump, during last week’s Government Investigations & Civil Litigation Institute conference in Florida. “We don’t have a game plan like, ‘Oh, we’re going to create a big, national firm.’ Nor do we have a game plan to stay a minimalist boutique,” Barr said of his firm, Torridon Law Group. “We’re going to follow opportunities when they present themselves. If someone I believe is really good and would be a great partner, … we’ll try to grow and bring them into the firm.”
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