{"id":110598,"date":"2025-03-17T12:39:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T20:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/03\/17\/with-paul-weiss-perkins-coie-and-covington-burling-under-attack-will-big-law-speak-out-to-defend-the-rule-of-law\/"},"modified":"2025-03-17T12:39:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T20:39:01","slug":"with-paul-weiss-perkins-coie-and-covington-burling-under-attack-will-big-law-speak-out-to-defend-the-rule-of-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/03\/17\/with-paul-weiss-perkins-coie-and-covington-burling-under-attack-will-big-law-speak-out-to-defend-the-rule-of-law\/","title":{"rendered":"With Paul Weiss, Perkins Coie and Covington & Burling Under Attack, Will Big Law Speak Out to Defend the Rule of Law?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prominent law firms and the legal profession are under attack, and this has repercussions around the world, writes The Global Lawyer. When will Big Law finally speak out?<\/p>\n

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The top-tier international law firms Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison, Covington & Burling, and Perkins Coie now know full well what William Shakespeare was getting at when more than 400 years ago he wrote: “The first thing we do, let\u2019s kill all the lawyers.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The famous but oft-misunderstood line from Henry VI, Part II<\/i> has frequently been used to condemn the legal profession and perpetuate the stereotype of the corrupt, overpriced lawyer. But Shakespeare, a master at depicting the interplay of power and politics, had something else in mind: the character who wants to wipe out all the lawyers also wants to stage a coup. The remark, while comical, is a recognition that lawyers can stand in the way and that they act as guardians of justice and freedom.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prominent law firms and the legal profession are under attack, and this has repercussions around the world, writes The Global Lawyer. When will Big Law finally speak out? \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The top-tier international law firms Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison, Covington & Burling, and Perkins Coie now know full well what William Shakespeare was getting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":110599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/legal-news-Mx9QyU.jpeg?fit=767%2C633&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}