Karen
Dunn,
Bill
Isaacson,
Jessica
Phillips,
and
Jeannie
Rhee
made
headlines
when
they
left
Paul,
Weiss.
Their
(now
former)
Biglaw
home
inked
a
coward’s
deal
with
Donald
Trump
to
get
out
from
under
an
onerous
Executive
Order
rather
than
fight
the
unconstitutional
EO
in
court.
So,
they
picked
up
their
ball
and
bat
—
or
books
of
business
—
and
started
a
brand
new
firm,
unencumbered
by
the
terms
of
capitulation.
Since
they
announced
their
new
firm
(at
the
PW
partners
meeting,
no
less!)
they’ve
been
collecting
litigators
(a
number
of
which
also
spent
time
working
at
Boies
Schiller,
like
the
name
partners).
And
last
week
they
added
another
skilled
litigator
in
the
form
of
Meryl
Governski.
Like
many
joining
Dunn
Isaacson
Rhee,
Governski
most
recently
worked
at
a
firm
that
signed
a
deal
with
Trump,
this
time
Willkie
Farr.
Willkie
has
already
lost
a
number
of
litigators
because
of
their
capitulation
to
Trump.
But,
as
reported
by
Reuters,
Willkie
partner
Michael
Gottlieb
(who
has
worked
with
Governski
on
a
number
of
high-profile
representations
including
Drake,
Blake
Lively
and
the
Georgia
poll
workers
who
successfully
sued
Rudy
Giuliani
for
defamation)
had
a
different
spin
on
the
departure,
chalking
it
up
to
the
time
Governski
spent
working
at
Boies
Schiller:
Willkie
partner
Michael
Gottlieb
in
a
statement
said
the
firm
hoped
to
continue
working
with
Governski
at
her
new
firm.
He
said
it
was
“completely
unsurprising”
that
she
would
want
to
reunite
with
her
former
Boies
Schiller
colleagues.
Interesting
take.
But
my
hunch
is
that
if
Willkie
held
strong
and
defended
the
rule
of
law,
they’d
still
have
Governski
on
their
roll.
Kathryn
Rubino
is
a
Senior
Editor
at
Above
the
Law,
host
of
The
Jabot
podcast,
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of
Thinking
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A
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