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7 companions go away this BigLaw agency for brand new boutique after professional bono deal
June 12, 2025, 9:34 am CDT
Extra legal professionals from Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison are becoming a member of a litigation boutique fashioned by 4 companions of the BigLaw agency. (Picture from Shutterstock)
Extra legal professionals from Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison are becoming a member of a litigation boutique fashioned by 4 companions of the BigLaw agency.
The newly fashioned regulation agency Dunn Isaacson Rhee shall be made up of at the very least seven companions and three associates from Paul Weiss, report Legislation.com, Reuters and Bloomberg Legislation (right here and right here).
Paul Weiss is amongst 9 corporations that reached professional bono offers with President Donald Trump to keep away from punitive govt orders that threatened their purchasers’ contracts and their legal professionals’ safety clearances.
The exiting group contains two companions who previously labored for former particular counsel Robert Mueller in his investigation of Russian affect within the 2016 presidential election, together with Jeannie Rhee, one of many legal professionals who left to kind Dunn Isaacson Rhee.
The opposite legal professionals who created the boutique agency are Karen Dunn, Invoice Isaacson and Jessica Phillips.
One other Paul Weiss companion, former U.S. Legal professional Damian Williams of the Southern District of New York, jumped to Jenner & Block from Paul Weiss. He’ll co-chair Jenner & Block’s litigation division and its investigations and protection practices.
Paul Weiss pledged to offer $40 million in professional bono to help administration initiatives in change for the lifting of an govt order focusing on the agency. The initiatives listed embody serving to veterans, equity within the justice system and preventing antisemitism.
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