So the Judge called it a harrassing call. Law firm claims rogue employee didnt know they were involved in the case..so he just decides to harass an attorney.
I think he should be fired. Probably wont be but having an employee who can embarrass your firm like this is just waiting for another rogue incident.
My take on it is that yes Linda Kerns is getting hundreds of harassing phone calls and emails, and then one lawyer from Kirkland & Ellis LLP sent an email mocking her as well. That would happen to any lawyer in a high profile case. Doing the right thing frequently isn’t popular. In this case the remedy requested is quite drastic, stopping certification of the election and voiding hundreds of thousands of dubious mail-in ballots, and that leads to ridicule. Perhaps the guy who sent it didn’t know his firm was involved in the case. Maybe the guy is just a natural A-hole. Many lawyers are arrogant like that. Call me sexist, but I think a male attorney would have just shot back a response to the effect of âÂÂEff-you too. See you in court!â No one would care. Here, because the attorney is a woman she needs to make a formal complaint to the court.
Judge Brann knows he has a serious case before him that will go to SCOTUS, and he doesn’t have time to be keeping order in the nursery. Really, any violations of PA’s rules of attorney conduct should be decided by the PA Supreme Court’s attorney disciplinary board. It’s their role to police things like that if that guy crossed the line somehow.
The larger scandal to me was that the President of the United States couldn’t get a major law firm in the Commonwealth to represent him in a case that goes to the fundamental foundation of the nation, free and fair elections. In theory a client is entitled to zealous representation in our judicial system. In practice, few individuals get that from their lawyers. âÂÂZealous representationâ is just a facade that the legal profession uses to protect corporations and the powerful against ordinary people. Giuliani had to take over the case because local counsel were all afraid of repercussions from calling out the PA Supreme Court for denying POTUS a fair election and the equal protection of the law to his supporters. That is what is shocking, not some arrogant A-hole at Kirkland & Ellis LLP writing a private email to mock a sole practitioner.