Ed.
note:
Welcome
to
our
daily
feature, Quote
of
the
Day.
[It’s]
unprecedented
in
my
experience
for
a
party
to
withdraw
their
appeal,
and
24
hours
later
to
say,
‘Oops,
I
made
a
mistake.’
It
seems
to
show
a
level
of
incompetence
and
chaos
in
the
Department
of
Justice.
They
simply
don’t
seem
to
know
what
they’re
doing,
and
maybe
one
person
doesn’t
speak
to
another
person.
— Shira
Scheindlin,
of
counsel
at
Boies
Schiller
Flexner
and
former
judge
of
the
U.S.
District
Court
for
the
Southern
District
of
New
York,
in
comments
given
to
the
American
Lawyer,
concerning
the Department
of
Justice
withdrawing from
its
defense
of
its
executive
orders
targeted
against
Perkins
Coie,
WilmerHale,
Susman
Godfrey,
and
Jenner
&
Block,
which
resulted
in
a flip-flop
less
than
24
hours
later,
with
the
DOJ
crawling
back
to
withdraw
its
motion
to
voluntarily
dismiss
the
appeals
of
its
cases
against
the
Biglaw
firms.
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