A TOP DC lawyer has taken her job in protest against the decision of her company to offer $ 100 million in pro-bono work to President Donald Trump's government.
Brenna Trout Frey, a former lawyer in Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, went to LinkedIn on Saturday to express her worries and announce her resignation.
Only 24 hours earlier, Trump announced that the multinational law firm agreed with a deal that would see it provides legal services to veterans, officials, “members of the army, law enforcement and through,” according to Hill.
“Today the executive partner of my former company sent us all an” update “who tried to convince some of the best spirits in the legal profession that he did a solid by the requirements of the Trump administration for loyalty and protection money,” Frey wrote.
Frey justified her resignation for reasons not to work for a company that is actively involved in “illegal dei -discrimination” and ignores “politically detached groups”, as she claimed in her position.
She then insisted on others to “do some soul search at the weekend and send me to me to send a message that this is unacceptable (however you can).”
The controversial step of Skadden to provide legal services followed the executive order of Trump on 22 March, which brought the best American companies that previously filed lawsuits or against his administration.
Een bedrijf om aan het bevel te lijden, was Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale en Dorr LLP (Wilmerhale), de thuisbasis van voormalig FBI -directeur Robert Mueller III, die diende als de speciale raadsman die vermeende Russische interferentie in de presidentsverkiezingen van 2016 namens Trump onderzoekde, zoals gemeld door Trump, zoals gemeld door Trump, zoals gemeld door Trump. The New York Times.
Mueller worked at Wilmerhale before retired in 2021.
Trump announced on Friday that Skadden agreed to provide at least $ 100 million to Pro Bono Legal Services to his administration (Reuters)
“There is only one acceptable response from lawyers to the requirements of the Trump government: the rule of law is important. The rule of law is important.
“As a lawyer, if my employer cannot stand up for the rule of law, I cannot continue to work ethically for them,” Frey added.
A week before Frey's decision, her former colleague Rachel Cohen resigned from LinkedIn in a similar way.
“If I demand on this career path, I accept that my industry – because this is certainly not unique for Skadden – allow an authoritarian government to ignore the courts, I refuse to continue,” Cohen wrote.
In the executive order, the White House said that the sanctions would enforce “against lawyers and law firms who deal with frivolous, unreasonable and annoying lawsuits against the United States or in cases for executive departments and agencies of the United States.”
It warned that companies who wanted to violate the conditions of the order would be confronted with punitive executive actions, including a 'reassessment of safety authorizations'.
Lawyer and founder of the Democratic Party and chairman of Elias Law Group LLP LLP Marc Elias was also mentioned as “Deeply involved in the establishment of a false file” by a foreign subject designed to provide a fraudulent basis for federal law enforcement to change a presidential candidate to change the outcome of the presidential election. '
The memo claimed that Elias “deliberately tried to hide the role of his client – failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton – in the file.”
Former FBI director, Robert Mueller III, served with the special counselor who investigated the alleged interference of Russia in the 2016 presidential elections (Getty Images)
After the announcement, Elias shot back on the White House and drawn up a statement stated: “The memo of today's White House is not only focused on me and my law firm, but every lawyer and lawyer's office who challenges his attack on the rule of law.
“The goal of President Trump is clear. He wants lawyers and law firms to capitulate and shrink until there is no one left to oppose his administration before the court,” his statement continued.
Since the memo, the Trump administration has attacked various companies, including Jenner & Block LLP (Jenner) and Wilmerhale, in two separate memos for leaving 'the highest ideals of the profession and [abusing] The Pro Bono practice to undermine activities that undermine justice and the interests of the United States. “
The independent Skadden approached for comment.
