Fordham Law Professor Atinuke Adediran was quoted in Law360 article about Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP’s decision to strike a deal with the Trump administration to defuse an executive order targeting the firm.
Still, Atinuke Adediran, a law professor at Fordham University School of Law who studies the interplay between business, law and society, said that regardless of the specifics, the optics of the Paul Weiss deal paint a grim picture of the legal industry in today’s era of uncertainty.
“If a great, powerful firm gets out of being targeted in this way, what signal does that send?” she said.
Read “Paul Weiss Stuns Legal Industry With Trump DEI Deal” on Law360.
