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Rights can’t simply exist in dusty regulation books, recited in lecture rooms and promptly forgotten, or in tiny font in contracts most of us don’t learn and may’t perceive. And rights can’t be reserved only for companies and rich people who pays for authorized illustration.
Few chapters in our historical past have extra immediately referred to as on our career’s expertise and obligations than this one. The personal bar should now step up in protection of equal justice, or we’ll all fall.
— Kathleen Rubenstein, former government director of the Skadden Basis, in an essay revealed in Bloomberg Law, the place she calls upon legal professionals to defend the rights of others throughout a time when the rule of regulation is underneath assault by the Trump administration. Within the wake of Skadden’s deal with Trump, Rubenstein resigned from the Foundation “somewhat than endorse actions that [she] imagine[s] will undermine its mission.”
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