"The New York Bar Foundation gala typically boasts a country club vibe with golf claps, rubber chicken, and everyone pretending they're not checking their phones under the table. It's a crowd whose idea of rebellion is leaving before dessert. So when a crowd gathered outside Gotham Hall sporting signs calling out elite Biglaw firms for prostrating themselves before the Trump administration,"
"The 75th edition of the New York State Bar Association's event described itself as "honoring extraordinary leadership and lasting impact." With Paul Weiss taking a prominent role on this night, marrying that tagline to the very first firm to wave the white flag in Trump's illegal bullying campaign, inspiring eight other copycats and ushering in the significant chilling of social justice work across the legal industry likely to continue for the rest of the administration's tenure elevated the event to Needful Things territory."
The New York Bar Foundation gala carried a country-club atmosphere but was met with protests outside and heckling inside over elite law firms' agreements to provide legal services to the Trump administration. The 75th New York State Bar Association event touted 'honoring extraordinary leadership and lasting impact' while critics pointed to Paul Weiss's prominent role after it led firms in pledging legal support to the administration, a move said to chill social justice pro bono work. Paul Weiss emphasized its long pro bono history and commitments to reproductive freedom and gun litigation, but the pledge to represent the administration overshadowed those efforts and sparked vocal dissent.
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