Paul, Weiss Next on the Chopping Block
Yesterday the President issued another Executive Order, this time targeting all “employees of Paul, Weiss” – quite coincidentally, the 2024 AmLaw and 2024 NY Law Journal “Law Firm of the Year”! – “and Mark Pomerantz,” a lawyer formerly, but no longer, employed by the firm.**
Under the terms of the Executive Order, (1) security clearances for every one of the thousands of Paul Weiss employees (and Mark Pomerantz) are “immediately suspended, pending a review of whether their access to sensitive information is consistent with the national interest”; (2) the government “will halt all material and services . . . provided to Paul Weiss and restrict its employees’ access to government buildings”; (3) the government “will terminate contracts that involve Paul Weiss”; and (4) federal agencies will “refrain from hiring Paul, Weiss employees unless specifically authorized.”
** Pomerantz was of counsel to the litigation department at Paul Weiss when, in 2021, he left the firm to join the New York City DA’s office as a Special Assistant DA, to assist DA Cyrus Vance Jr. in his investigation of Donald Trump’s business and financial dealings. He resigned that position in 2022, when the new DA, Alvin Bragg, announced that the office would not be pursuing an indictment of the former president. Pomerantz wrote an angry letter of resignation, and he wrote an angry book about his experience in the DA’s office (The People
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