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THE HILLARY CLINTON LAW FIRM AND LAWYER WHO MOVED INTO MANHATTAN TO HELP LEITITIA JAMES TO GET TRUMP, PAUL WEISS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul,Weiss,_Rifkind,_Wharton&_Garrison
1875 - 1949
The firm that eventually became Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison was started in New York in 1875 by Samuel William Weiss and Julius Frank as a general commercial practice.[4][5] In 1923, Samuel's son, Louis Weiss, started his own firm with John F. Wharton.[4] That firm later merged with Samuel's firm, and the new firm became Cohen, Cole, Weiss & Wharton.[5] In the 1930s, the firm represented one of the Scottsboro boys.[4] In 1946, Lloyd K. Garrison[6] and Randolph Paul joined the firm,[7] bringing the firm up to thirteen lawyers.[5] The name changed to Paul, Weiss, Wharton & Garrison.[4]
In 1946, Paul, Weiss became the first major New York law firm to have a woman partner, Carolyn Agger.[8][5] Agger worked in the firm's Washington office, which was established the year she was hired.[5] Three years later, in 1949, the firm hired William Thaddeus Coleman Jr., a Black graduate of Harvard University Law School.[5] This was the first time that a major New York City law firm hired a person of color.[9] 1949 was also when the firm moved its headquarters to midtown Manhattan.[5]
1950 - 2000
In 1950, Simon Rifkind joined the firm and it became Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison.[4] At the time, the firm had 12 partners, only one of whom did trial work;[4] Rifkind wanted to change that and started to grow the firm's litigation department.[5] Then, in 1957, Arthur Liman joined the firm.[10] He later served as chief counsel in the Senate investigation of the Iran-Contra affair in 1987.[11] In 1966, Rifkind recruited Theodore Sorensen who became the firm's first international lawyer.[5][12] He drafted a constitution for Tajikistan in 1993 when the nation emerged from the former Soviet Union.[13][5]
Controversies
In 2018, Paul Weiss was criticized when it released a photograph on its Linkedin of recently promoted partners, all of whom were white.[14] Additionally, the photograph included only one woman partner who had been relegated to the bottom corner of the image.[15] Although Paul Weiss had a reputation for being more diverse than other elite big-law firms, the announcement drew criticisms that even "diverse" big-law firms still partook in racist and sexist methods of employment and promotion. The photograph served as a "lightning rod" for the growing frustration that elite law careers are still largely reserved for white men.[16]
A 2021 assessment singled out Paul, Weiss among law firms as engaging in the most litigation, lobbying and transactional work for fossil fuel companies.[17][18] The company received the lowest grade in a 2021 scorecard of law firms on climate change actions. The firm had represented fossil fuel companies in 30 cases over the five preceding years.[17] In January and February 2020, students at Harvard Law School, Yale Law School, New York University School of Law, and the University of Michigan Law School protested the firm's recruitment events over its representation of Exxon Mobil Corporation.[19][20][21][22]
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP (known as Paul, Weiss) is an American multinational law firm headquartered on Sixth Avenue in New York City. By profits per equity partner, it is the fifth most profitable law firm in the world.[2]
History
Paul, Weiss's core practice areas are in litigation and corporate law.[3] In addition to its headquarters in New York, the firm has offices in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Wilmington, Delaware, Toronto, London, Tokyo, Beijing, and Hong Kong.