{"id":134181,"date":"2025-09-30T18:36:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T02:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/09\/30\/summer-associates-really-expected-better-from-biglaw-firms-that-capitulated-to-trump\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T18:36:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T02:36:51","slug":"summer-associates-really-expected-better-from-biglaw-firms-that-capitulated-to-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/09\/30\/summer-associates-really-expected-better-from-biglaw-firms-that-capitulated-to-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Associates Really Expected Better From Biglaw Firms That Capitulated To Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

If the [Biglaw] firms had just stuck together no one would be in this tough place of having to capitulate or suffer consequences. Super disappointed in Paul Weiss, Latham, Kirkland, etc. and they were all immediately taken off my list of places to work.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 <\/i>A summer associate from Fish & Richardson, in response to a question posed in the American Lawyer\u2019s annual Summer Associate Satisfaction Survey<\/a>. A summer associate from Cahill Gordon echoed these sentiments, saying, \u201cIt\u2019s embarrassing and disheartening when pitbull law firms cower. Clients should demand more from their firms.<\/em><\/strong>\u201c<\/em><\/strong> When asked how much they agreed with the sentiment that the legal profession\u2019s independence was being challenged by the Trump administration, about two-thirds of respondents said \u201cagreed\u201d or \u201cstrongly agreed.\u201d<\/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 Summer Associates Really Expected Better From Biglaw Firms That Capitulated To Trump<\/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

If the [Biglaw] firms had just stuck together no one would be in this tough place of having to capitulate or suffer consequences. Super disappointed in Paul Weiss, Latham, Kirkland, etc. and they were all immediately taken off my list of places to work.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 <\/i>A summer associate from Fish & Richardson, in response to a question posed in the American Lawyer\u2019s annual Summer Associate Satisfaction Survey<\/a>. A summer associate from Cahill Gordon echoed these sentiments, saying, \u201cIt\u2019s embarrassing and disheartening when pitbull law firms cower. Clients should demand more from their firms.<\/em><\/strong>\u201c<\/em><\/strong> When asked how much they agreed with the sentiment that the legal profession\u2019s independence was being challenged by the Trump administration, about two-thirds of respondents said \u201cagreed\u201d or \u201cstrongly agreed.\u201d<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. If the [Biglaw] firms had just stuck together no one would be in this tough place of having to capitulate or suffer consequences. Super disappointed in Paul Weiss, Latham, Kirkland, etc. and they were all immediately taken off my list of places to work. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":134182,"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-134181","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-2hDCBt.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134181","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=134181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}