Rachel Cohen, the third-year finance associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom who’d been one of the rare voices in Big Law to attach her name to criticism of firms’ quiescence in the face of an unprecedented assault from the Trump administration, had a sharp reaction to the deal Paul, Weiss, Rifkin, Wharton & Garrison negotiated with the president on Thursday.
The agreement, in which president agreed to revoke his previous executive order targeting the firm in exchange for Paul Weiss promising $40 million in pro bono legal services to causes across the political spectrum and retaining an independent organization to evaluate its hiring practices, prompted her to send a firm-wide email Thursday night demanding her firm act, or alternatively, to accept her two-week notice.