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Starting in 2015, the law firm represented his campaign, and they did so through the 2016 cycle and then again the 2020 campaign, that was work that basically started on Inauguration Day of 2017. And so they were front and center on both of his presidential campaigns, but they were not representing him personally. ... Astonishing. ... A powerful and important picture of how mega law firms distort justice.” — Washington Post Though not a household name, Jones Day is well known in the halls of power, and serves as a powerful encapsulation of the changes that have swept the legal profession in recent decades. Founded in the US in 1893, it has become one of the world’s largest law firms, a global juggernaut with deep ties to corporate interests and conservative politics.
And this book only increases my ire and makes me more pessimistic because nothing is going to change. Big law and politics and multibillion dollar corporations are all deeply intertwined and nothing’s gonna separate them. Corporations will continue to spend significant amounts of money on their lawyers so that they can do whatever they want with impunity and as less government oversight as possible; the big law firms will throw all their power at the government lawyers who probably will never have enough budgets to confront big corporations; and lawyers and high level government officials will just keep changing their jobs from law firm to government to lobbying to law firm … till it’s just a vicious circle, where all these people with money and power get what they want, and the public is left with nothing. From the New York Times's Business Investigations Editor and #1 bestselling author of Dark Towers comes a long-overdue exposé of the astonishing yet shadowy power wielded by the world's largest law firms, following the narrative arc of Jones Day, the firm that represented the Trump campaign and much of the Fortune 500, as a powerful encapsulation of the changes that have swept the legal industry in recent decades. Enrich is the Times’ investigative editor. Dark Towers, his previous book, examined Trump’s relationship with Deutsche Bank. It also laid out the ties that bound Anthony Kennedy, the retired supreme court justice, to the Trump family. Kennedy’s son once worked at the bank. Brett Kavanaugh, who replaced Kennedy on the court, once clerked for the judge. Unfortunately for Pendragon, participating in this desperate scheme has placed his own soul in jeopardy. If the Reapers succeed and Flameheart is reborn, it will be Sir Arthur who finds himself marooned in the furthest reaches of the Sea of the Damned, beyond even Belle’s ability to aid him.
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In our next webinar, we'll take a closer look at this phenomenon. Our guest is David Enrich, New York Times business investigations editor. He presents his new book on the subject: Said physical form, as it turned out, was being meticulously restored by Stitcher Jim, having returned to the Reapers to fulfil his role as the Herald of the Flame. Once Jim’s involvement was confirmed and his work had forced him out of hiding, it was these preternatural preparations that gave the Pirate Lord’s allies their opportunity to strike. This was a cynical but not entirely unfounded view, and it allowed the lawyers to avoid moral judgment and instead adopt a mercenary approach to the practice of law. There were no good guys or bad guys in this type of litigations, the attorneys assured themselves. It was more like a game, and everyone was doing whatever they could to win.” From the New York Times’s Business Investigations Editor and #1 bestselling author of Dark Towers comes a long-overdue exposé of the astonishing yet shadowy power wielded by the world’s largest law firms, following the narrative arc of Jones Day, the firm that represented the Trump campaign and much of the Fortune 500, as a powerful encapsulation of the changes that have swept the legal industry in recent decades.
The NYT's Business Investigations Editor reveals the dark side of American law: Delivering a "devastating" (Carol Leonnig) exposé of the astonishing yet shadowy power wielded by the world's largest law firms, David Enrich traces how one firm shielded opioid makers, gun companies, big tobacco, Russian oligarchs, Fox News, the Catholic Church, and much of the Fortune 500; helped Donald Trump get elected, govern, and evade investigation; masterminded the conservative remaking of the courts . . . and make a killing along the way. Alternately admiring and critical, unvarnished, and a closely detailed account of a troubled innovator. Whether the intensity of Enrich’s disdain is deserved is debatable. The public holds lawyers in lower esteem than auto mechanics, nursing home operators, bankers and local politicians. On the other hand, lawyers fare better than reporters. Beyond that, the bar’s canons demand that lawyers zealously represent their clients. Reputational concern and the ease or difficulty of recruiting fresh talent and clients are often more potent restraints than finger-wagging. Once local to Cleveland, JD has absorbed tremendous talent to become the international powerhouse it is today. However, its zenith was with Trump, with whom they had campaigned, to whose administration they had sent many an alum, and from whom they rehired those now government-seasoned attorneys to entice more clients.ENRICH: I don't know, is the short answer. I don't think the fact that they're getting sued is the thing that would make me a little queasy. It's a fact that the entire tobacco industry, and RJR in particular, has a very well-documented history of lying about the deadly and addictive nature of its product. It's one of the only products that, when used as intended, kills the person who's using it. But, put my views aside, what I've heard talking to a bunch of people inside Jones Day, some of them are fine with the tobacco representation, but others, including some partners and former Supreme Court clerks, were so unhappy about the notion of working for a tobacco company that they reached agreements with the firm that they would not themselves have to work on those cases.
Jones Day defends its actions by claiming that all clients deserve representation and a lawyer is under an obligation not to abandon the client during difficult times. Although this may be true in criminal matters, the author points out that there is no such requirement in seeking and keeping other well-positioned clients. Enrich also makes a strong case that Jones Day litigators will attempt to bully and overwhelm its opponents in tactics that are undertaken in bad faith.
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Their agenda ... ranged from lots of deregulation and really getting the government out of the affairs of businesses to a very large extent, and then also an agenda of what I think the right people on the right would call "religious liberty." And I think people on the left and to a certain degree, people in the center would say much dramatically eroding the separation of church and state in a way that allows religion to play a much more prominent role in public and political life.
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