Ima bet there was some kind of unspoken/unseen agreement as to no further prosecution of Craig and Skadden, but just spitballing on that.
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So he'll be earning maybe £200-300k a year at 8yrs PQE. That's... not a lot of hours. Thinking of my university friends of the same seniority in similar roles - they're doing well, sure, but they're not 'spend 100k on legal fees without blinking' wealthy
I think for VdZ the big issue likely pertained to what "cost" he could afford wrt his pending promotion, which would have gone through in May. Maybe Skadden suggested he had to let them rep him, bc the risk to the firm was so great. But that cost him his job.
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If they did that, I'd have some serious professional conduct questions for any of their English qualified staff who were involved
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Putting pressure on an employee to give up their legal right to independent representation would... not be a good look. I'm also unclear WHY he went to the US to assist in the first place? They presumably can't compel a foreign national to fly in to be interviewed
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"They" being Mueller? Or Skadden, which was working hard to avoid the fate of Tony Podesta's firm (I exaggerate, but only slightly).
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Mueller!
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Sure, but he didn't have to. Skadden would have provided any necessary leverage. And as I said, they had the promotion hanging over VdZ's head.
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Well, and a mutual desire to try to quickly bury the dirt. And a bilateral arrogance that they could.
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And a senior partner sitting in DC who could be compelled,
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Ding ding ding!
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