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https://pacer-documents.s3.amazonaws.com/147/127057/15517440455.pdf
tarheelsunc
(2,117 posts)soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Link to tweet
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StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)Look at the pleading.
Ms. Toad
(33,992 posts)Kramer Levin is becoming counse. (filing a notice of appearance.) Kirkland Ellis is withdrawing.
Kramer Levin is not Kirkland Ellis's counsel, so the suggestin that Kirkand Ellis is being replaced by "its client" (Kramer Levin) is not accurate, based on the notice of appearance.
Yes, the PA Office of General Counsel is STILL in the lawsuit, but they didn't replace Kirkland Ellis. It is Kramer Levin that replaced Kirkland Ellis according to the notice of appearance.
brooklynite
(94,302 posts)A K&E Associate apparently sent a hostile voicemail message to one of Trump's lawyers. I'm guessing they thought that would be a distraction.
A lawyer spearheading the efforts by President Donald Trumps campaign to dispute the election results in Pennsylvania complained to a federal court Sunday that she received an abusive telephone message from an attorney at the elite law firm representing the state, Kirkland & Ellis.
The Trump campaign lawyer, Linda Kerns of Philadelphia, said she received the one-minute-long voicemail Saturday morning from an associate a very junior attorney based in Kirklands Washington, D.C. office.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/16/trump-lawyer-harassing-call-opposing-attorney-436764
CincyDem
(6,333 posts)...this was about the trump campaign wanting to change the landscape of the battle for some yet to be revealed reason.
StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)This call was a problem and a distraction, so it wouldn't surprise me if it had something to do with the firm's withdrawal.
The Trump campaign didn't have anything to do with this.
The Chump "campaign" didn't do this; the Commonwealth of PA did. There's no change in the landscape.
My guess is that the voice mail had nothing to do with anything and Kirkland withdrew because the "challenge" has turned out to be a complete farce and the Commonwealth is already represented by enough lawyers to meet it.
Ms. Toad
(33,992 posts)by Kramer Levin, which is subbing in for Kirkland Ellis.
So they aren't losing attorneys - just swapping one firm for another.
Klaralven
(7,510 posts)Attorney General Bill Barrs alarming expansion of political control at the DOJ in advance of the election is also a story of corporate capture: a single law firm, Kirkland & Ellis, has a revolving door monopoly on the highest ranks of the Department of Justice that deserves far more scrutiny.
A tight network of former Kirkland lawyers including Barr, his two highest-ranking deputies, and numerous other top officials has achieved an extraordinary level of control at the DOJ, and has played a key role in putting the agency to work for the president.
The Kirkland network appears to have provided the political and legal muscle behind one of the DOJs most controversial recent moves: its decision to take over the presidents defense in the E. Jean Carroll defamation lawsuit by claiming that the president was acting in his official capacity in denying Carrolls rape allegation. Just prior to that intervention, Barr had installed former Kirkland lawyers including a longtime partner who was hired by the DOJ in August into key positions at the Civil Division and its Torts Branch, which is handling the case. Though a federal judge rejected the DOJs attempt to get it dismissed, discovery in the case was effectively delayed until after the election, with obvious benefits for Trump.
This pattern of appointments, detailed below for the first time, lends further support to the charge that Barr is running the DOJ as if it is the presidents private law firm; the name of that firm is Kirkland & Ellis.
https://news.littlesis.org/2020/10/30/kirkland-ellis-the-law-firm-behind-the-trump-barr-power-grab-at-the-doj/