When the Supreme Court overturned abortion rights last year, Cozen O’Connor’s executive chairman quickly dashed off an email to everyone at the law firm.
Cozen would do everything necessary to ensure people get healthcare, Michael Heller told them. And the firm would pay for it—wherever people had to go to get it.
“I had a lot of partners send me emails that said thank you,” Heller said in an interview. “I had a lot of partners that sent me emails that said that’s inappropriate.”
Big Law leaders increasingly find themselves enmeshed in politics, as the talent and clients they compete for drive them to confront how their values align with hot-button issues of the day.
The issue might be guns: Kirkland & Ellis quit working on Second Amendment cases after superstar advocate Paul Clement won a Supreme Court gun rights case, prompting him to leave the firm.
Or race: Dorsey & Whitney ended its prosecution assistance program with the Minneapolis City Attorney’s office in 2020 following George Floyd’s murder.
Or politics: Firms including Hogan Lovells and Holland & Knight temporarily halted political action committee donations to Congress members after the US Capitol riot.
Or ESG: Five Republican senators told 50 law firms last year they should tell clients about the risk of “participating in climate cartels and other ill-advised” environment, social...
Tehran – Saba: The Iranian Foreign Ministry condemned the subversive actions taken by the rulers of Abu Dhabi against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Last night, Tasnim News Agency reported that the...