- Paul Weiss Prad Carp President sent an email to the employees on Sunday.
- The email addressed the company’s deal with Trump after an executive order to target him.
- Carb acknowledged that “many employees” are “uncomfortable” on the decision.
Paul Weiss Prad Carp Chairman knows that some employees feel uncomfortable about the attorney office deal with the Trump administration.
So send an email.
Paul Weiss is among the many major companies that President Donald Trump this month with executive orders on DEI policies and political affiliations. The orders canceled the security clearance of Paul Weiss lawyers and called for a review of government government contracts. The company is linked to Trump’s political competitors, including lawyer Mark Boumeneranz, who left the company to join the Manhattan County lawyer in Trump’s money.
After the matter, she captured the uncertainty of the law firm and began to lose customers. On Friday, Trump announced that he had reached a decision with Paul Weiss and withdrew the executive order. The decision guarantees specific conditions, including saving $ 40 million in Pro Bono management services.
The deal shocked some in the legal community, which was anxious about what some saw was surrender by the strong company. KARP tried to process these concerns in an email to the employees on Sunday. Email was reported for the first time through the legal publication The original jurisdiction. Paul Weiss representative confirmed the contents of the email to Business Insider.
Below is a copy of the full email:
Subject: A statement of the PW community Dear members of Paul, Weiss Society, I wanted to take this opportunity to talk to all of you completely about the events of the last days. I know this was a very annoying time for all of you. Information gaps are filled with speculation, anxiety and wrong information, and I wanted to take this opportunity to address your concerns directly. Thank you for spending time to listen. Late on Friday evening, March 14, the president issued an executive order targeting our company. Since then, we have been facing an unprecedented threat to our company, unlike anything since Samuel Weiss was first attached to the center of Manhattan on April 1, 1875 – exactly 150 years ago. Just several days ago, our company faced an existential crisis. The executive was easily destroyed by our company. It brought the full weight of the government to our company, our people and our agents. In particular, our customers threatened to lose their governmental contracts and the loss of access to the government, if they continue to use the company as lawyers. In a clear attempt to target you all and the company, the ghost sparked that the government will not employ our employees. We were hoping that the legal industry would gather alongside us, although it did not do so in response to the executive orders targeting other companies. We have tried to persuade other companies to get out of public support from Covington and Perkins Coie. We waited for companies to support us in the wake of the CEO of Paul, Weiss. In disappointing, away from support, we learned that some other companies were seeking to exploit our weaknesses by seeking our customers strongly and employing our lawyers. We initially prepared to challenge the executive order in the court, and a team of Paul, Weiss Lawyers, prepared a lawsuit in the best traditions of the company. But it became clear that even if we succeeded in supporting the executive order at the beginning in litigation, it will not solve the basic problem, which was that customers looked at our company as an unwanted person with the administration. We can prevent the executive from being implemented, but we were unable to erase it. Customers told us that they would not be able to stay with us, although they want it. It is very likely that our company is able to survive in a long conflict with the administration. At the same time, we learned that the administration may be ready to reach a decision with us. So, by working with our external attorneys, we did exactly what we advise our customers to do in the “bet” to litigate every day: we talked to the administration to see if we can achieve a permanent settlement that does not require us to give up our basic values and basic principles. Within a few days, we were able to negotiate such a decision. This decision, which I shared with all of you on Thursday evening, had three basic components. First, we repeated our commitment to the diversity of the view, including in employment and in taking new issues. Second, while maintaining our long commitment to diversity in all its forms, we agreed to follow the law regarding our employment practices. Third, we agreed to commit $ 10 million annually over the next four years at the time of Pro Bono in three areas in which we are already an important work: helping the veterans in our nation, confront anti -Semitism, and promote the disarmament of the justice system. To be clear, and to clarify the wrong information it sustains from different media sources, the administration does not dictate what we care about, or agree to matters, or anything of that. Obviously, we will not agree on that, and we are not able to agree on that. Instead, we have agreed to commit large free resources, in addition to $ 130 million, which we already send annually, in areas of common importance. We will continue all the current Bono work that we are doing and we will continue in our old role as a leader of the private bar in the field of public interest and public interest. This existential crisis requires the leadership of our law office to make incredibly difficult decisions with unusual time pressure. In making these decisions, we surrendered with two basic principles. First and foremost, we stood up with our commitment to protecting the interests of our customers. As I mentioned earlier, we concluded that even victory in litigation will not be sufficient to do so, because our company will continue to be considered an unwanted person with the administration. We could not simply exercise the law in Paul, if we are still subject to the executive. This decision was unambiguous in the interests of our customers. Equally important, we were guiding our credit duty towards all of you-through our commitment, as rules of the company, to protect livelihoods of 2,500 lawyers and illegal professionals working in Paul, Weiss. This consideration – the need for a guarantee, above all, that our company will survive – we have greatly done all of us, especially Ali, as a company leader. In the political environment today, it is not surprising that the announcement that we have negotiated a solution with the administration, instead of fighting it in court, has established severe feelings throughout the company and indeed through the legal and broader society. As often in such situations, the wide media coverage and the comment on the social media surrounding recent events has taken its own life, with its realistic novel and its own momentum. The coverage was not useful, fragmented, and incorrect in many basic aspects. But it is not in particular to build for any of us as a participant to discuss real contradictions. Instead, the most important thing is to look at the future. In this regard, I would like to present some clarity and perspective as we move forward. First, most importantly, we seemed to have an apparently raised problem and removed a cloud of uncertainty that was hanging on our law firm. Our customers were largely supportive, expressing relief from resolving this situation, and the fact that, as the president publicly admitted, our company now has a participation and constructive relationship with this administration. Thousands of clients have continued directly to express their constant confidence in Paul, Weiss and their appreciation for our fixed dedication to their issues throughout this period and our ability to secure a solution quickly to their interest. Even those who expressed their personal disappointment that we did not fight the administration have said that they were completely appreciated by the stake for the legal company and respect our decision. Second, the decision we have reached with the administration will not have any impact on our work, culture and common values. The essence of who we are and what we defend and we will remain unchanged. To achieve this end, we will continue with our inheritance for a century of last century to stand courageously for basic rights and freedoms, for fairness in the judicial system, and for members of our most vulnerable society in our society. This commitment is woven into our DNA. He would never be subject to negotiation or settlement. Third, we will continue to support each of you on your career, which provides you with the best training in the world and opportunities for progress and prosperity in your field. Above all, we will remain a place where we enjoy working together; Where we respect each other; Where we can practice the law at the highest levels of excellence. I know that many of you are uncomfortable because we have entered into any kind of accuracy at all. This is completely concept. There was no correct answer to the dilemma in which we found ourselves. We all have opinions about what is happening now in America. This is an incredibly dependent moment for our country. It is very easy for commentators to judge our actions from side lines. But no one in the wider world can appreciate his tension in the face of an executive matter like this until one is directed to you. I want to close by expressing my deep gratitude to each of you. Since March 14, we have seen Pais, Weiss at his best, and support each other in the face of an unprecedented threat. Once again, it showed the exceptional caliber of Paulna’s community, Weiss. Your professionalism, your dedication to our customers, your support for each other, and your commitment to our company was no less than that in light of these impossible conditions. I am sure that, just as we have in previous crises, we will go beyond this together and become stronger and more flexible as a society. To this end, my door is open to you and we move in the following steps, as well as the doors of the company’s driving. This was a very painful experience for me and other leaders of the company. I know it was a very difficult period for many of you. Since March 14, we have been traveling in a terrible storm. But I know that we will go through this storm, and we will continue to support the luxurious traditions that have identified Paul, Weiss over the past 150 years. I am very grateful to each of you, and everything you do every day for this very special place and our broader societies. refrigerator Brad S. Carb president
Paul, Weiss, Riffend, Warton and Garrison LLP
