Top Law Firms Are Hosting Drag Queen Bingo. Will They Really Shun the SCOTUS Leaker?
Many Supreme Court-watchers said the person responsible for leaking a draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade committed career suicide. If that's so, the top law firms aren't saying a word about it.
The Washington Free Beacon contacted partners and corporate staff at six top law firms which regularly hire Supreme Court clerks. All declined to say whether they would hire the leaker or even condemn the breach itself.
Though an internal probe has yet to identify the source, reports indicate that clerks are the focus of the investigation. Recent months have seen other unusual disclosures—such as the leak of Justice Stephen Breyer's retirement plans—which point to a newcomer with loose lips.
The steely silence approach to the unprecedented leak highlights growing tension in elite law firms between their white-collar pedigree and increasingly left-wing staff. While top firms must maintain prestige and credibility with the courts and their corporate clients, they're increasingly populated by a new class of young, left-wing lawyers who view those very entities as harmful and oppressive. The strain is driving a new dynamic in which woke lawyers are given a free hand to set DEI policies or take on progressive causes pro bono, while the firm's high-dollar commercial work goes on unabated.
Though BigLaw has always tilted left, firm culture and free legal aid are becoming decidedly more progressive, according to Free Beacon interviews with current and former attorneys at top firms. One BigLaw associate told the Free Beacon that their firm is crafting practices to better screen applicants for alignment with "firm values." Several firm offices, the source added, are hosting drag queen bingo for LGBT pride month.
"Just in case there was any doubt about what the firm's values are," the source said. The source was granted anonymity to speak candidly about events at their company.
Another lawyer who recently departed BigLaw said leftist attorneys are seizing perches on diversity and governance committees, where they can influence DEI programming and leftwing pro bono work with support from aligned partners.
"The nature of partnership lends itself to decision apathy," the source said. "It's harder to mobilize a partnership blob than it is for the DEI/HR mob to charge ahead."
The source added that many partners are willing to go along with the zeitgeist as long as it doesn't detract from the profitability of the firm.
"That's the priority," said the source.
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