Seems Like A Solids Move

 For an associate.  Quoting in full from a garbage post by ATL

But it should be obvious, not everyone at the firm is pleased about it. Today, Kevyn Orr, partner-in-charge at Jones Day’s D.C. office, hosted an associate call to discuss the recent controversy. But apparently after giving his spiel, the call was ended without letting associates register their opinions. Which ticked some folks off.

Parker Rider-Longmaid, an associate in the Issues & Appeals practice — and a former clerk to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — was apparently deeply disappointed at Orr’s decision not to answer questions and let fly an email to the entire D.C. office registering that displeasure:

Kevyn, my understanding was that we would have an opportunity at today’s meeting to ask questions or say something. Robin and I had prepared to say something. So now I will share it with all of you this way.

We dissent.

I don’t believe the question here is whether the Pennsylvania election cert petition has legal merit, or is instead frivolous.

I believe the question is whether this firm should lend its prestige and credibility to the project of an administration bent on undermining our democracy and our rule of law.

Make no mistake. From the outset, this petition was designed to suppress the vote, to ensure that fewer of our fellow Americans’ voices would be heard, in the midst of a global pandemic like we have never seen in our lifetimes.

And now, it is being weaponized to threaten our generations-long tradition in this country of peaceful and democratic transition of power.

I believe that our society should strive to become a more just and inclusive representative democracy. And this petition, and the project to which it lends our collective prestige, stands firmly in the way of that ideal.

We as lawyers choose our clients and our causes. We choose what we stand for. And this project, I submit, should not be one of those things.

As an American, I am today deeply disappointed in this firm. I do not accept as simply unpopular what is profoundly undemocratic. We are better than this. And yesterday should be no excuse for tomorrow.

We dissent.

https://abovethelaw.com/2020/11/oh-to-be-a-fly-on-the-wall-at-jones-day-as-dissension-at-the-firm-grows/