After President Donald Trump announced a deal with Skadden, ARPS, Slate and Meagher & Flom on Friday, Brenna Frey decided to have enough.
Fry, a partner in the company’s office in Washington, DC, told a large law for more than a decade, Business Insider on Sunday that it was “deals” for her that Skadden chose to reach an agreement with the administration in a pre -emptive way to avoid the punitive executive acts similar to those that were taken against Paul Weiss, Perkins Coie, and Willmerhale, Willmerhale, Among other things.
In recent weeks, Trump has targeted many major law firms with executive measures that strip their lawyer from security permits and reviews of their government contracts. Some companies, such as Jenner & Block and Wilmerhale, have fought orders in court, while others, such as Paul Weiss and Skaddin, have signed agreements to avoid legal headache.
“The deal was announced, and this was for me,” Farri said, noting that she “never thought of leaving” before Skadden’s decision to provide $ 100 million in legal services for professionals for reasons that Trump supports. The company also promised that it would not “participate in illegal discrimination” Dei “, according to a copy of the agreement published by Trump on the social truth.
In the announcement of her resignation on LinkedIn, Fry described Skadden’s deal with Trump “Kravin’s attempt to sacrifice the law for self -preservation.”
BI told that she wanted to make her resignation public to refer to solidarity with those who are disappointed or angry at the agreement.
She said: “I know that there are people who are still in the company who cannot leave for any reason and financial reasons, and they need to pay the laws of the Law College, and the breadwinner for their family.” “I knew that these people could not speak, so because I was able to do so, I felt it was important to make that audience.”
In her LinkedIn post, Fry quoted Rachel Cohen, a former previous colleague in Skadden, who resigned earlier this month in an email at the company level. Fry said that she also tried to send her resignation to all American SKADNEN companies, but she found that the distribution lists were broken.
Two other Skadden Associates Bi told them that, they also tried to send emails at the company level in search of more information about the deal, but they found that access to internal distribution lists had been banned after Cohen’s resignation.
In her e -mail on March 20 to Skaden, I published it on LinkedIn, Cohen He said the current situation was not normal. It also distributed an open letter between hundreds of colleagues in the major law firms who call their employers to take a stronger position against Trump’s executive orders.
Cohen, who worked in the company’s office in Chicago, wrote to Frei LinkedIn Post on Friday, continuing her decision to “defend the rule of law.”
Cohen wrote: “Berina – you and many others are the reason that I will never be ashamed to say that I worked in Skadden Arps, although driving design is to try to destroy the company’s name,” Cohen wrote.
Fry said that she had received support from some colleagues inside Skadden, as well as from people outside the company.
She said: “With regard to the great law in general, I am grateful because the world is watching and watching clients.” “There are examples of companies that have successfully resisted.”
While companies like Skadden and Paul Weiss have signed deals with the president, as they attracted anger from many in this industry, Other companies have chosen to prosecute Trump’s executive orders.
Jenner & Block and Wilmerhale are two of those companies. In both cases, the judges agreed on temporary restrictions to stop Trump’s executive procedures. In both cases, judges expressed concern that the targeted procedures threatened the rule of law.
“I hope they are looking for companies that have resisted against this violation of the rule of law, instead of companies that chose to fulfill the requirements of the Trump administration,” said.
