He Who Would Sup with the Devil Must Have a Long Spoon

Hey, Paul Weiss! Hey, Skadden! You CANNOT Do Business with Donald Trump!

N.Y. Times, Law Firms Made Deals with Trump. Now He Wants More From Them: To avoid retribution, big firms agreed to provide free legal services for uncontroversial causes. To the White House, that could mean negotiating trade deals—or even defending the president and his allies.

Not to mention defending Trump’s multiple constitutional violations—once the Justice Department has run through all its competent attorneys and the rest have been found in contempt of court.

Hey, Paul, Weiss! Hey, Skadden!

Y’all think y’all are gonna be able to keep on recruiting the cream of the crop from among law school graduates? To do what? To go work for Pam Bondi and be found in contempt of court? Maybe to be disbarred?

I don’t think so. 

As I have said before, I was a partner of New York law firms ranked in the #20 to #30 range or thereabouts. Not as rich as Paul Weiss or Skadden, but within spitting distance. 

And here’s something I learned. There are some bad people that you can do business with. And there are some bad people that you cannot do business with.

Some people you can buy, and they stay bought. Some people you can buy, but they don’t stay bought.

And Orange Mussolini is a bad person you cannot do business with.

Mainly because, in addition to being bad, he’s also crazy in the head.

Your “agreements” with Orange Mussolini are not legally enforceable, They do not even purport to be legally enforceable. And even if they did purport to be legally enforceable, they’re illusory. Their “terms” are ambiguous. And there was never a mutual manifestation of intent to abide by agreed on terms.

You have to repent of those deals. 

And why is that?

Because if you don’t repent of those deals, no one is going to come work for you.

And if competent young lawyers don’t come and work for you, then your business model is going to go up in smoke. 

And you can bend over and kiss your $20 million annual compensation goodbye.