Big Law leaders are speaking out and stepping up in the wake of the Trump Administration’s recently-enacted, and then rolled back, policy of separating children from their parents at the southern border.
In a New York Times op-ed Monday, Brad Karp, chairman of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, and Gary Wingens, chairman and managing partner of Lowenstein Sandler, called the administration’s current policy—which they characterized as prolonged detention of asylum-seeking families— “lawless” and said it will require “an army of lawyers to untangle.” Karp and Wingens wrote the op-ed on behalf of 34 law firm leaders.
“As a ...
Learn more about Bloomberg Law or Log In to keep reading:
Learn About Bloomberg Law
AI-powered legal analytics, workflow tools and premium legal & business news.
Already a subscriber?
Log in to keep reading or access research tools.