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[It’s] unprecedented in my expertise for a celebration to withdraw their enchantment, and 24 hours later to say, ‘Oops, I made a mistake.’
It appears to point out a stage of incompetence and chaos within the Division of Justice. They merely don’t appear to know what they’re doing, and possibly one individual doesn’t converse to a different individual.
— Shira Scheindlin, of counsel at Boies Schiller Flexner and former choose of the U.S. District Courtroom for the Southern District of New York, in feedback given to the American Lawyer, regarding the Department of Justice withdrawing from its protection of its govt orders focused towards Perkins Coie, WilmerHale, Susman Godfrey, and Jenner & Block, which resulted in a flip-flop less than 24 hours later, with the DOJ crawling again to withdraw its movement to voluntarily dismiss the appeals of its circumstances towards the Biglaw companies.
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