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You Won Your Gun Case. You’re Fired.
Wall Street Journal ^ | June 23, 2022 | The Editorial Board

Posted on 06/24/2022 6:04:25 AM PDT by jdege

Kirkland & Ellis tells Paul Clement and a partner to dump their Second Amendment clients. They refuse and resign.

A 6-3 victory at the Supreme Court vindicating a constitutional right is usually cause for congratulations, but not these days at Kirkland & Ellis, the giant white-shoe law firm. The firm has rewarded partner Paul Clement for his triumph Thursday in the big New York gun-rights case (see nearby) by telling him to drop his gun clients or leave the firm.

As Mr. Clement and his litigation partner, Erin Murphy, explain nearby, they’re leaving the firm rather than dump their clients. That’s the honorable and ethical decision.

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1 posted on 06/24/2022 6:04:25 AM PDT by jdege
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To: jdege

Holy crap…principles.


2 posted on 06/24/2022 6:06:29 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: jdege

Start your own 2nd Amendment Rights law firm. You now have the creds to start one.


3 posted on 06/24/2022 6:06:48 AM PDT by frogjerk (I will not do business with fascists)
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Fired a partner? How does that work?


4 posted on 06/24/2022 6:10:12 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: jdege

Who would want to work for a LAW firm that does not believe in the Constitution or the Supreme Court?


5 posted on 06/24/2022 6:10:57 AM PDT by Jolla
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To: jdege

Your good news blast for this morning.


6 posted on 06/24/2022 6:11:31 AM PDT by dennisw
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To: jdege

Report that firm to the bar and have them disbarred IMMEDIATELY.

They should also be investigated for other legal abuses of the system.


7 posted on 06/24/2022 6:11:57 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: jdege

Imagine if a law firm told a lawyer to dump all their transgender clients?

Do you think that law firm would be allowed to stay in business?

We HAVE to fight back against this treachery NOW.


8 posted on 06/24/2022 6:14:08 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: frogjerk

Release the Kraken!

A righteous sense of justice without sympathy or pity.


9 posted on 06/24/2022 6:14:36 AM PDT by alloysteel (There are folks running the government who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches - Will Rogers)
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To: Skywise
>Report that firm to the bar and have them disbarred IMMEDIATELY.

They are too busy celebrating "Pride Month" and being "woke" to worry about "knuckle dragging gun fetish types".

10 posted on 06/24/2022 6:15:50 AM PDT by SecondAmendment (This just proves my latest theory ... LEFTISTS RUIN EVERYTHING !!!)
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To: EEGator
It's all part of a textbook, ‘Stalinist’ purge being conducted by the Liberals.

If they were following a Fascist blueprint for dealing with opposition, they couldn't MORE closely resemble those tactics!!

Thinking that 'Communism' and 'Fascism' are two different words and consequently two different agendas, is a jejune, self-deceit. Their objectives and systems are identical. Both are de humanizing and oppressive agendas for wholesale, totalitarian control of people and governments!

11 posted on 06/24/2022 6:16:27 AM PDT by SMARTY (“Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.” Thomas Sowell)
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To: jdege

The law firm is even more nefarious than it would seem.

Imagine, the firm sanctioning taking on a 2A Case for plaintiff(s) whose rights are violated and then the lawyers assigned to the case had the effrontery to actually win it.

The firm’s demands on the lawyers are an admission (IMO) that it NEVER intended to faithfully represent the client. IOW, they EXPECTED to lose and get paid a hefty sum while doing it. Unconscionable...

I’d say the two lawyers ought to form their own 2A firm and the first clients would be in a massive lawsuit against the former firm. Class Action....


12 posted on 06/24/2022 6:17:20 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: jdege

https://www.kirkland.com/offices


13 posted on 06/24/2022 6:18:53 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Gene Eric

Contract language.

“Lawyers” after all.


14 posted on 06/24/2022 6:19:05 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: Jolla

EVERY DEMOCRAT LAWYER.


15 posted on 06/24/2022 6:19:29 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: jdege

Kirkland and Ellis is a huge conglomerate law firm with offices worldwide.

I’m sure that Kirkland and Ellis are taking heat from very large Liberal clients for winning this case, so K-E made the decision to either lose huge corporate accounts or lose the second amendment troublemakers.

Easy choice to make for soulless lawyers.


16 posted on 06/24/2022 6:20:02 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: jdege

Isn’t Paul Clement a name I recognize from high-profile cases, or SC considerations ?


17 posted on 06/24/2022 6:21:36 AM PDT by chiller (Davey Crockett said: "Be sure you're right. Then go ahead'. I'm going ahead.)
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To: jdege

Well, adios Aholes!


18 posted on 06/24/2022 6:26:14 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: jdege
"....As Mr. Clement and his litigation partner, Erin Murphy, explain nearby, they’re leaving the firm rather than dump their clients. That’s the honorable and ethical decision..."

Blessings to them.

19 posted on 06/24/2022 6:26:27 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: jdege

corporate clients who believe in the natural right to self defense should fire K&E


20 posted on 06/24/2022 6:27:02 AM PDT by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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