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Civil war breaks out among Trump lawyers at each other's throats
When Elite Law Firms Choose Their Client Over the LawTrump’s Fight Is Not the Story’s CoreDonald Trump is still trying to escape the money he owes E. Jean Carroll after losing two jury verdicts, and Sullivan & Cromwell is now deeper in that effort than it first pretended to be. The firm initially told partners it would keep its distance from Trump’s push to overturn the verdicts, then inserted itself into the Carroll matters anyway.The Real Decision-MakersThe central fact here is not Trump’s legal bluster. It is institutional choice. Sullivan & Cromwell’s executive committee approved Trump as…
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