{"id":123290,"date":"2025-06-18T14:03:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T22:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/06\/18\/even-more-litigation-partners-are-bailing-on-paul-weiss\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T14:03:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T22:03:14","slug":"even-more-litigation-partners-are-bailing-on-paul-weiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/06\/18\/even-more-litigation-partners-are-bailing-on-paul-weiss\/","title":{"rendered":"Even More Litigation Partners Are Bailing On Paul, Weiss"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boutique law firm Dunn Isaacson Rhee\u00a0was recently founded <\/a>by former Paul, Weiss partners Karen Dunn, Bill Isaacson, Jessica Phillips, and Jeannie Rhee. That fact would be big news to Biglaw watchers in completely ordinary times, but we live in the year of our lord 2025 and nothing is ordinary. The partners exited Paul, Weiss because of the cowardly deal the firm struck with the Trump administration.<\/p>\n

In March Paul, Weiss\u00a0shocked the world of Biglaw<\/a> when they\u00a0became the first<\/a> firm to bend a knee to Donald Trump to get out from under an\u00a0onerous Executive Order<\/a> designed to\u00a0extract a financial penalty\u00a0<\/a>for being affiliated with cases and causes that displeased the president. Since then, the firm has been experiencing the consequences of their actions \u2014 the deal with\u00a0Trump keeps getting worse<\/a>, there\u2019ve been\u00a0congressional investigations<\/a>,\u00a0client concerns<\/a>, and so many lawyers\u00a0bailing<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0the firm<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0distance themselves<\/a> from the craven capitulation.<\/p>\n

And Dunn Isaacson Rhee is where a *bunch* of those fleeing attorneys <\/a>have landed. According to reporting <\/a>by Bloomberg Law, partners Martha Goodman and Amy Mauser\u00a0have joined that list \u2014 making them the eighth and ninth partners to leave Paul, Weiss for Dunn Isaacson \u2014 not to mention all the associates that have also joined the new boutique. <\/p>\n

These types of departures are exactly why Paul, Weiss chair Brad Karp has been reduced to assuring his partners that EVERYTHING IS FINE<\/a>. This is a real run on litigation talent and is the exact opposite of reassuring, <\/p>\n

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\"\"Kathryn Rubino is a Senior Editor at Above the Law, host of The Jabot podcast<\/a>, and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer<\/a>. AtL tipsters are the best, so please connect with her. Feel free to email her<\/a> with any tips, questions, or comments and follow her on Twitter @Kathryn1<\/a>\u00a0or Mastodon @Kathryn1@mastodon.social.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Even More Litigation Partners Are Bailing On Paul, Weiss<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Boutique law firm Dunn Isaacson Rhee\u00a0was recently founded <\/a>by former Paul, Weiss partners Karen Dunn, Bill Isaacson, Jessica Phillips, and Jeannie Rhee. That fact would be big news to Biglaw watchers in completely ordinary times, but we live in the year of our lord 2025 and nothing is ordinary. The partners exited Paul, Weiss because of the cowardly deal the firm struck with the Trump administration.<\/p>\n

In March Paul, Weiss\u00a0shocked the world of Biglaw<\/a> when they\u00a0became the first<\/a> firm to bend a knee to Donald Trump to get out from under an\u00a0onerous Executive Order<\/a> designed to\u00a0extract a financial penalty\u00a0<\/a>for being affiliated with cases and causes that displeased the president. Since then, the firm has been experiencing the consequences of their actions \u2014 the deal with\u00a0Trump keeps getting worse<\/a>, there\u2019ve been\u00a0congressional investigations<\/a>,\u00a0client concerns<\/a>, and so many lawyers\u00a0bailing<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0the firm<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0distance themselves<\/a> from the craven capitulation.<\/p>\n

And Dunn Isaacson Rhee is where a *bunch* of those fleeing attorneys <\/a>have landed. According to reporting <\/a>by Bloomberg Law, partners Martha Goodman and Amy Mauser\u00a0have joined that list \u2014 making them the eighth and ninth partners to leave Paul, Weiss for Dunn Isaacson \u2014 not to mention all the associates that have also joined the new boutique. <\/p>\n

These types of departures are exactly why Paul, Weiss chair Brad Karp has been reduced to assuring his partners that EVERYTHING IS FINE<\/a>. This is a real run on litigation talent and is the exact opposite of reassuring, <\/p>\n

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\"\"Kathryn Rubino is a Senior Editor at Above the Law, host of The Jabot podcast<\/a>, and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer<\/a>. AtL tipsters are the best, so please connect with her. Feel free to email her<\/a> with any tips, questions, or comments and follow her on Twitter @Kathryn1<\/a>\u00a0or Mastodon @[email\u00a0protected].<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Boutique law firm Dunn Isaacson Rhee\u00a0was recently founded by former Paul, Weiss partners Karen Dunn, Bill Isaacson, Jessica Phillips, and Jeannie Rhee. That fact would be big news to Biglaw watchers in completely ordinary times, but we live in the year of our lord 2025 and nothing is ordinary. The partners exited Paul, Weiss because […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":123272,"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-123290","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\/IMG_5243-1-scaled-e1623338814705-620x568-S2sJpp.jpeg?fit=620%2C568&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123290","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=123290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}