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Our agency is now identified extra broadly than it’s ever been identified within the authorized neighborhood and even past the authorized neighborhood. We’ve had purchasers and potential purchasers say to us generally, on a confidential foundation, that they’re significantly us for issues due to how we’ve responded to what they a minimum of personally agree with as assaults on the rule of regulation.
— Laurie Carr Mims, managing associate of Keker Van Nest & Peters, in feedback given to Law.com Pro Mid-Market, on the agency’s response following John Keker’s “60 Minutes” interview condemning the Trump administration’s actions against law firms. “We [were] prepared to tackle the chance. We’ve had a historical past of taking over the federal government once we see unconstitutional acts. We did so within the first Trump administration, we did so within the Biden administration,” Mims stated. “We get up in opposition to the federal government. We at the moment have actions the place we’re antagonistic to the federal government. We need to proceed that and we’ll proceed that and proceed to be vocal.”
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