{"id":122766,"date":"2025-06-11T14:03:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T22:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/06\/11\/lawyers-must-band-together-in-the-battle-to-save-the-rule-of-law\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T14:03:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T22:03:04","slug":"lawyers-must-band-together-in-the-battle-to-save-the-rule-of-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/06\/11\/lawyers-must-band-together-in-the-battle-to-save-the-rule-of-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawyers Must Band Together In The Battle To Save The Rule Of Law"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Rights can\u2019t just exist in dusty law books, recited in classrooms and promptly forgotten, or in tiny font in contracts most of us don\u2019t read and can\u2019t understand. And rights can\u2019t be reserved just for corporations and wealthy individuals who can pay for legal representation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Few chapters in our history have more directly called on our profession\u2019s skills and obligations than this one. The private bar must now step up in defense of equal justice, or we will all fall.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 Kathleen Rubenstein<\/a>, former executive director of the Skadden Foundation, in an essay published in Bloomberg Law<\/a>, where she calls upon lawyers to defend the rights of others during a time when the rule of law is under attack by the Trump administration. In the wake of Skadden\u2019s deal with Trump<\/a>, Rubenstein resigned from the Foundation<\/a> \u201crather than endorse actions that [she] believe[s] will undermine its mission.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Lawyers Must Band Together In The Battle To Save The Rule Of Law<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Rights can\u2019t just exist in dusty law books, recited in classrooms and promptly forgotten, or in tiny font in contracts most of us don\u2019t read and can\u2019t understand. And rights can\u2019t be reserved just for corporations and wealthy individuals who can pay for legal representation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Few chapters in our history have more directly called on our profession\u2019s skills and obligations than this one. The private bar must now step up in defense of equal justice, or we will all fall.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 Kathleen Rubenstein<\/a>, former executive director of the Skadden Foundation, in an essay published in Bloomberg Law<\/a>, where she calls upon lawyers to defend the rights of others during a time when the rule of law is under attack by the Trump administration. In the wake of Skadden\u2019s deal with Trump<\/a>, Rubenstein resigned from the Foundation<\/a> \u201crather than endorse actions that [she] believe[s] will undermine its mission.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"Staci
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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. Rights can\u2019t just exist in dusty law books, recited in classrooms and promptly forgotten, or in tiny font in contracts most of us don\u2019t read and can\u2019t understand. And rights can\u2019t be reserved just for corporations and wealthy individuals who can pay for legal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":122746,"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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Staci-Zaretsky-1QAKsW.jpeg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122766","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=122766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}