Servants of the Damned: Giant Law Firms, Donald Trump, and the Corruption of Justice by David Enrich

Servants of the Damned: Giant Law Firms, Donald Trump, and the Corruption of Justice

by David Enrich

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Crime & JusticePolitics & Power

NYT business editor David Enrich's investigation of Jones Day — and Big Law more broadly — and its role in normalizing and enabling Trump's legal strategies across his businesses, campaigns, and presidency.

Core ideas
  • Elite law firms reframed serving Trump as "everyone deserves representation" — a defensible principle stretched to cover what was effectively ideological alignment with the client's project.
  • The financial gravity is one-way: representing the powerful pays, defending the public interest doesn't, and partnership economics push firms toward whoever pays — and toward not making the client uncomfortable.
  • The cumulative effect of dozens of firms making individually defensible choices was a corporate legal establishment that lubricated the corruption of the justice system from within.
Published2022
Pages384
ISBN9780063142176
ReadApr 2023
Trump era

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