{"id":4791,"date":"2025-03-19T08:24:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T08:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/with-paul-weiss-perkins-coie-and-covington-burling-under-attack-will-big-law-speak-out-to-defend-the-rule-of-law\/"},"modified":"2025-03-19T08:24:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T08:24:02","slug":"with-paul-weiss-perkins-coie-and-covington-burling-under-attack-will-big-law-speak-out-to-defend-the-rule-of-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/with-paul-weiss-perkins-coie-and-covington-burling-under-attack-will-big-law-speak-out-to-defend-the-rule-of-law\/","title":{"rendered":"With Paul Weiss, Perkins Coie and Covington &#038; Burling Under Attack, Will Big Law Speak Out to Defend the Rule of Law?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>The top-tier international law firms Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton &amp; Garrison, Covington &amp; Burling, and Perkins Coie now know full well what William Shakespeare was getting at when more than 400 years ago he wrote: &#8220;The first thing we do, let\u2019s kill all the lawyers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>The famous but oft-misunderstood line from <i>Henry VI, Part II<\/i> has frequently been used to condemn the legal profession and perpetuate the stereotype of the corrupt, overpriced lawyer. But Shakespeare, a master at depicting the interplay of power and politics, had something else in mind: the character who wants to wipe out all the lawyers also wants to stage a coup. The remark, while comical, is a recognition that lawyers can stand in the way and that they act as guardians of justice and freedom.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The top-tier international law firms Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton &amp; Garrison, Covington &amp; Burling, and Perkins Coie now know full well what William Shakespeare was getting at when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1583,434,5152,4979,3328,1404,153,1128,4978,372,824,1129],"class_list":["post-4791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-attack","tag-big","tag-burling","tag-coie","tag-covington","tag-defend","tag-law","tag-paul","tag-perkins","tag-rule","tag-speak","tag-weiss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4791","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=4791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}