The New York Times Magazine Article on Jones Day - Objective, Yet Setting Off Controversy (National Review Should Profile Liberal Law Firm)

Already buzzy is The New York Times Magazine detailed profile of law firm Jones Day. Its title and subtitle read this way:

"How a Corporate Law Firm Led a Political Revolution: The Untold Story of Jones Day's push to move the American government and courts to the right."

The author is David Enrich. 

It is fact-based. For example, one statistic is that Jones Day partner (before and after serving in the Trump Administration White House as head lawyer) Don McGahn helped place more than 100 conservative judges in federal courts. The joke then was that if there were a court vacancy McGahn was on orchestrating how to fill it. 

It also anticipates push-back. It points out that progressive law firm Paul Weiss, one of the most wealthy, is also active politically. That includes donations to the Democratice Party, pro-bono legal work for liberal issues, and high-profile advocacy for liberal causes. 

Yet, that article, which is quite objective, has become controversial. The contention is that the NYT Magazine did a hit job on Jones Day. Here is the Reddit Big Law thread example of that.

Yes, in general the NYT is known to play in the liberal sandbox. However, this is, as the saying goes, is a legitimate story. Any other media center, left, right, or more centered, could have done it. 

One way of neutralizing this journalistic controversy and for reputation restoration for Jones Day is this: Have a conservative media outlet such as the National Review to do a long-form equally objective profile of a prominent liberal law firm such as Paul Weiss. One has to wonder: If the US legal system were tilting more progressive would law firms sharing that ideology be as active in politial influence as Jones Day has been? Would they - large law firms have immense wealth, power, and influence - be as busy bees as Jones Day lawyers have been in filling federal courts (as well as federal agencies) with liberals?

There is a street meme, dressed up in sophisticated language. That's this: Everyone would do what I have done, given the opportunity. Wealth, power, and influence, if the opportunity is there, can pull off just about anything. The article predicts that Jones Day can ontinue to be a game-changer in government and the courts. 

Meanwhile, Bloomberg Law positioned and packaged Paul Weiss as the most powerful law firm in the Biden Administration. It would be interesting what the National Review could do with that in an attempt to be totally objective.

Full Disclosure: When I was an influencer in social media two public relations firms hired me to blog two trials in which Jones Day handled the defense.

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