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Sunday, March 23, 2025

Trump Is Helping Break the Left-Wing Monopoly in Big Law

 

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2/8 We came dangerously close from 2020-2024 to one party achieving a political monopoly and effectively ending the American Republic, leaving us with a veneer of a Constitution, but in reality a non-Constitution or anti-Constitution dreamed up on a case-by-case basis by
3/8 One of the leverage points that led us to that potential political monopoly is a BigLaw monopoly, in turn abetted by a Top 25 Law School faculty monopoly — and indeed by a collegiate and elementary and secondary school ideologic monopoly. The law professors are predominantly
4/8 Then those students populate BigLaw, make partner, and they run the law firms as functional extensions of the Left as well its main party and its NGOs. Virtually all pro bono work is then done to benefit the Left, except a case here or there taken on as a token that is
5/8 There are more conservatives and moderates inside Big Law than Big Law lefties like to think. But the conservatives and moderates have been cowed. And for their part, they have failed to push back against continuous leftward drift, later rapid lurching, and most recently
6/8 Thank goodness for Trump, who saw that in just the span of 20 years, BigLaw had become so monolithic and dominated by the Left that he had to take some action to push back on these firms. Allowing the trend to continue threatens liberty because the best legal know-how and
7/8 The 2020 election was an important inflection point. There was more suspicious activity in a national election there than we have seen in many a presidential contest. Hence, one or more BigLaw firms should have been lining up to represent the Trump side (just like they did
8/8 The solution is for BigLaw to again hire in more conservatives from the best law schools. (They’re there but some of them are cowed and hiding too.) Then to give them promotion opportunities to partner. For the BigLaw firms to also lateral in more conservative partners. To

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