Simpson Thacher Lawyer Quits as Firm ‘Capitulates’ to Trump
A Simpson Thacher & Bartlett associate quit his job after the law firm reached a deal with President Donald Trump to provide $125 million in legal work.
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A Simpson Thacher & Bartlett associate quit his job after the law firm reached a deal with President Donald Trump to provide $125 million in legal work.
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A Simpson Thacher & Bartlett associate quit his job after the law firm reached a deal with President Donald Trump to provide $125 million in legal work.
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Former Girardi Keese CFO Christopher Kamon, who helped convicted ex-lawyer Tom Girardi steal millions of dollars in client settlement funds and ran his own fraud on the firm, was sentenced Friday to 121 months in prison.
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FIVE OF THE WORLD’S biggest law firms reached deals with President Donald Trump, pledging hundreds of millions of dollars in pro bono work on the president’s behalf in exchange for avoiding punitive orders and federal discrimination investigations against four of them, Chris Opfer reports.
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