Ed.
note:
Welcome
to
our
daily
feature,
Quote
of
the
Day.
I’m
definitely
talking
to
general
counsel
who
are
using
the
settlement
issue
as
a
criteria—if
not
a
dispositive
variable—in
their
law
firm
choices.
We
haven’t
pulled
work
from
any
firms
yet,
but
when
new
matters
come
up,
we’re
making
sure
that
firms
challenged
by
the
government
have
a
real
opportunity
to
win
our
business.
—
Eric
Whitaker,
chief
legal
officer
at
DNA
sequencing
company
10X
Genomics,
in
comments
given
to
the
American
Lawyer,
concerning
working
with
law
firms
that
made
deals
with
the
Trump
administration.
“There’s
a
range
of
day-to-day
legal
work
where
I
have
complete
discretion–and
that’s
where
you’ll
see
movement
first,”
he
said,
pointing
out
that
“there’s
a
real
concern
about
institutional
stability.”
He
went
on
to
say
that
“[i]f
a
firm
you’ve
invested
in
suddenly
can’t
represent
you
because
of
outside
pressure,
that’s
a
major
problem
for
companies.”
Whitaker
is
the
co-founder
of
GCs
United,
a
group
for
in-house
legal
officers
to
“unite
in
support
of
the
rule
of
law
and
fellow
lawyers.”
Staci
Zaretsky is
the
managing
editor
of
Above
the
Law,
where
she’s
worked
since
2011.
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