Posted on 12/08/2016 1:09:30 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
In Congress and in the Supreme Court, the gun lobby has racked up some crucial victories in recent years. It won again last month when Donald J. Trump, buoyed by the gun lobby’s money and support, secured an upset victory in the presidential election.
On the defensive, gun control advocates are now quietly developing a plan to chip away at the gun lobby’s growing clout: Team up with corporate law firms.
After the Orlando nightclub massacre and a string of other mass shootings, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison; Covington & Burling; Arnold & Porter; and four other prominent law firms formed a coalition with gun control groups that until now have worked largely on their own. Together, the firms are committing tens of millions of dollars in free legal services from top corporate lawyers who typically bill clients $1,000 an hour or more.
This effort is highly unusual in its scale. Although law firms often donate time to individual causes, and some firms have worked on gun control on a piecemeal basis, the number and the prominence of the firms involved in the new coalition are unheard-of for modern-day big law. Other firms are expected to join in the coming months. . .
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...and the horse they rode in on.
I hope Sagman, Bennet, Robbins, Oppenheim and Taft isn't one of them.
I am holding up a finger to these people.....guess which one?
Dewey, Cheatem & Howe
I’m holding up 2. The British method.
;)
Neil, Suckett & Moane
and yet there are people who won’t join the NRA.
I guess trial lawyers are going to try to turn firearms into the next big payoff.
RICO them for trying to deny our civil rights.
Yep.
“I am holding up a finger to these people.....guess which one?”
Yes, you’re telling them that they’re number one.
It is long past time to tax and regulate the lawyer industry. It is a cancer on the body politic.
Let’s just get this civil war started. I’m tired of waiting.
Agree totally. Lawyer’s and pubic school teachers are my public enemies #1 and #2. Lawyers become judges and politicians, take away liberties, ruin families, make everything cost more, promote queerness and twist truths. Most are in mental anguish, per studies.
Amen.
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