{"id":4838,"date":"2025-03-21T17:44:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T17:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/skadden-associate-resigns-over-big-laws-tepid-response-to-trump-pressure\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T17:44:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T17:44:36","slug":"skadden-associate-resigns-over-big-laws-tepid-response-to-trump-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/skadden-associate-resigns-over-big-laws-tepid-response-to-trump-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"Skadden Associate Resigns Over Big Law&#8217;s Tepid Response to Trump Pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>Rachel Cohen, the third-year finance associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher &amp; Flom who&#8217;d been one of the rare voices in Big Law to attach her name to criticism of firms&#8217; quiescence in the face of an unprecedented assault from the Trump administration, had a sharp reaction to the deal Paul, Weiss, Rifkin, Wharton &amp; Garrison negotiated with the president on Thursday. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel Cohen, the third-year finance associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher &amp; Flom who&#8217;d been one of the rare voices in Big Law to attach her name to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3425,434,694,4470,2417,5183,739,5182,409],"class_list":["post-4838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-associate","tag-big","tag-laws","tag-pressure","tag-resigns","tag-response","tag-skadden","tag-tepid","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4838","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=4838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}