Anonymous ID: 05e0bd July 10, 2018, 5:04 a.m. No.2104249   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

Watching the soccer team rescue in Thailand makes me wonder who is really behind all the "child prostitute business' over there..

 

Not the people of Thailand. Must be the UK.

Anonymous ID: 05e0bd July 10, 2018, 5:50 a.m. No.2104451   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis_Wright_Tremaine

 

Firm founder John Davis, who recently celebrated his 101st birthday, founded the firm in 1944 based on a series of what he called Real Aims: โ€œ1. Financial independence. 2. Good reputation among fellow men, especially for ability and integrity. 3. Enough time off to enjoy living.โ€[5] His firm merged with Wright, Simon, Todd & Schmechel in 1969. In the 1980s, the firm opened offices in Anchorage, AK; Washington, DC; Bellevue, WA; and Los Angeles, CA. It merged with Ragen, Tremaine, Krieger of Portland, OR in 1990[6] and added more than 20 lawyers from Heller Ehrman LLP in 2008.

 

Davis Wright was the first U.S. firm with legal authority to maintain a law office in Shanghai, and has been operating in the country since 1994.[7] Alumni of the firm include Gary Locke, former Governor of Washington state, and U.S. Secretary of Commerce and U.S. Ambassador to China during the Obama Administration.

 

Davis Wright Tremaine partners Bud Walsh and Rick Cys prepared the habeas corpus petition for Abdul Haleem, one of the captives held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.[11]

 

Charles "Cully" Stimson, then Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs, stirred controversy when he went on record criticizing the patriotism of law firms that allowed employees to assist Guantanamo captives: "corporate CEOs seeing this should ask firms to choose between lucrative retainers and representing terrorists."[12] Stimson's views were widely criticized; the Pentagon disavowed them, and Stimson resigned shortly thereafter.

 

Davis Wright Tremaine, like many large law firms, has been the subject of numerous malpractice lawsuits, filed by disgruntled former clients. Of particular note however, was a suit alleging that they played a key role, in assisting retirement home operator Sunwest Management Inc. in its running of a $400 million Ponzi scheme. The lawsuit, which was filed by a group of Sunwest investors, alleged that Davis Wright Tremaine encouraged individuals and businesses to invest in Sunwest, even though they were aware of the companyโ€™s financial troubles