Follow up to Big Law Preys On Itself – Above the Law: “As more Biglaw firms sell out their integrity in exchange for relief from illegal retaliation from the Trump administration, lawyers and clients are distancing themselves from the settling firms. Some law students have already walked away from recruiting efforts by these firms. A pledge circulating among law schools gathers signatures from students willing to go on record that they won’t be joining firms that give in to the administration or those that try to squelch fully legal diversity initiatives just because the White House would like to pretend they aren’t. Yesterday, the People’s Parity Project publicly announced a Law Student Firm Pledge that started among law school chapters of the organization, though signing on is certainly open to all law students.

Law students from People’s Parity Project chapters across the country have come together to call the legal profession to its greater ideals. From UCLA to Harvard, and Georgia State to the University of Chicago, students are calling for a more ethical legal profession. And the law students are not only pushing for an affirmation of basic legal principles, but for affirmative actions by firms to ensure the rule of law, such as firms joining amicus briefs in litigation against unconstitutional targeting of firms for specific legal stances or efforts to suborn firms into a fascist project to eliminate criticism of the regime.