{"id":132786,"date":"2025-09-07T13:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T21:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/09\/07\/midlevel-associates-are-ashamed-to-work-at-firms-that-made-deals-with-trump\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T13:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T21:35:10","slug":"midlevel-associates-are-ashamed-to-work-at-firms-that-made-deals-with-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/09\/07\/midlevel-associates-are-ashamed-to-work-at-firms-that-made-deals-with-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Midlevel Associates Are \u2018Ashamed\u2019 To Work At Firms That Made Deals With Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

The firm\u2019s choices to dismantle its DEI recruiting initiatives and to engage in an agreement offering pro bono services to the Trump administration are steeped in hypocrisy, cowardice, and greed. It makes me feel ashamed to work here.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 <\/i>A midlevel associate at Latham & Watkins, in comments given in response to the\u00a0American Lawyer Midlevel Associates Survey<\/a>,\u00a0about how their disappointment over the firm\u2019s decision to make a deal with the Trump administration<\/a> and to go along with other conservative ideals. More notable and quotable responses can be found\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of 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 Midlevel Associates Are \u2018Ashamed\u2019 To Work At Firms That Made Deals With Trump<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

The firm\u2019s choices to dismantle its DEI recruiting initiatives and to engage in an agreement offering pro bono services to the Trump administration are steeped in hypocrisy, cowardice, and greed. It makes me feel ashamed to work here.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 <\/i>A midlevel associate at Latham & Watkins, in comments given in response to the\u00a0American Lawyer Midlevel Associates Survey<\/a>,\u00a0about how their disappointment over the firm\u2019s decision to make a deal with the Trump administration<\/a> and to go along with other conservative ideals. More notable and quotable responses can be found\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"Staci
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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of 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 Midlevel Associates Are \u2018Ashamed\u2019 To Work At Firms That Made Deals With Trump<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. The firm\u2019s choices to dismantle its DEI recruiting initiatives and to engage in an agreement offering pro bono services to the Trump administration are steeped in hypocrisy, cowardice, and greed. It makes me feel ashamed to work here. \u2014 A midlevel associate at Latham […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":132699,"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-132786","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\/09\/Staci-Zaretsky-Z2tpbM.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132786","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=132786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}