{"id":4566,"date":"2025-03-08T03:25:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T03:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/vivia-chen-believes-the-industry-needs-to-fight-back\/"},"modified":"2025-03-08T03:25:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T03:25:14","slug":"vivia-chen-believes-the-industry-needs-to-fight-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/vivia-chen-believes-the-industry-needs-to-fight-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Vivia Chen Believes the Industry Needs to Fight Back"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Embed Player\" src=\"https:\/\/play.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/35580665\/height\/192\/theme\/modern\/size\/large\/thumbnail\/yes\/custom-color\/0c44a4\/time-start\/00:00:00\/playlist-height\/200\/direction\/backward\/download\/yes\/font-color\/f3f5f9\" height=\"192\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" oallowfullscreen=\"true\" msallowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><br \/>Vivia Chen is an attorney and longtime legal industry columnist who currently writes under the Substack <a href=\"https:\/\/viviachen.substack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" link-data=\"{\" cms.site.owner=\"\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">\u201cThe Ex-Careerist\u201d<\/a>. She is known for her insightful observations of Big Law and access to those who know the industry inside and out. She was an opinion columnist for Bloomberg as well as The American Lawyer, where at the latter she had a 20-year run.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>Chen recently came out with a piece titled &#8220;We Should Be Ashamed,&#8221; which examined the legally questionable but economically viable threats the Trump administration put on Covington &amp; Burling for representing former Special Counsel Jack Smith. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>Legal Speak&#8217;s Patrick Smith sat down with Chen to discuss the rule of law and Big Law\u2019s role in it, both from a business and moral perspective. Chen outlined what the Big Law community should be doing as pushback to this behavior. And more importantly, Chen and Smith discuss what isn\u2019t being done.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vivia Chen is an attorney and longtime legal industry columnist who currently writes under the Substack \u201cThe Ex-Careerist\u201d. She is known for her insightful observations of Big Law [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4974,1799,835,137,4973],"class_list":["post-4566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-believes","tag-chen","tag-fight","tag-industry","tag-vivia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}