Writes David Enrich, in "Prominent Lawyer Roberta Kaplan Departs Firm After Clash With Colleagues/The well-connected attorney, who founded a powerhouse firm at the dawn of the #MeToo era, has faced complaints that she mistreated and insulted other lawyers" (NYT).
Kaplan represented E. Jean Carroll against Donald Trump and won a $83 million verdict. The law firm she founded was supposedly "driven by a progressive mission and free of the macho culture" found in other law firms (as the NYT put it).
We're told that these complaints about Kaplan coincided with her response to Andrew Cuomo's request for her advice on how to fight allegations that he had committed sexual harassment. Interesting. I think Andrew Cuomo is due for a comeback. He should — as rumored — run for mayor of NYC. Perhaps Kaplan can help. Rehabilitate yourself and him in one grand endeavor.
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I swear there should be a personality test applied to every kid who graduates college, and when they read too strongly on the sociopathic and psychopathic axes, they should have their forehead branded. This would have saved us from President Biden, for one thing.
The problem is truths never subjected to serious debate but just cancel-cultured into being.
Corporate law firms are S&M dungeons. I know. I worked in the biggest and wealthiest. The battle axe feminist harridans who entered the firms in the 1990s were awful beyond belief, and proud of it.
Thank God for the pension.
Every moment in that environment was like burning in Hell.
after clashing with her partners over her treatment of colleagues
…made them work Fridays?
"The problem is truths never subjected to serious debate"
Oh, proposed new "truths" are debated, just never in public, and never in the presence of any person who hasn't proven their absolute loyalty. Once these decisions are made, forcing them on us is next.
Still looking for the person less corrupt than what Trump is accused of doing.
What's next? The Democrats rehabilitate Harvey Weinstein and Al Franken? Woody Allen? Bill Clinton?
A party controlled by open psychopaths devours everything -- enemies, friends, and then itself.
These lawfare lawyers enjoying the lawless time in the space between the corrupt ruling and (hopefully) the corrupt ruling is overturned…it creates a sticky wicket for the politically corrupted attorneys. Part of the reason they are old at the end of their careers, the risk is what’s left of the honest judiciary and bar associated disciplinariate catching up to you…
…sucks for your career but lavish gifts await. Now all legal! SCOTUS approved!
Progressive newspapers don’t just break out the adverb “deeply” for just any reason. Like politicians they employ it to add gravitas to eulogize someone “important,” but otherwise reserve it to signal sincerity of Democrats who champion a cause. It’s a tell. It tips off the reader that the Democrat is not just promoting an issue but has deeply held beliefs upon which he/she is acting.
Here, used to modify Kaplan’s ties to Democrats, its use sticks out like a sore thumb. Not sure what the subtext is because, on the surface, it appears to strengthen Trump’s argument that ALL the lawfare waged against him is highly politicized. Then there’s the circumstances of the hit piece, taking her down for being the same kind of cad that they want us to perceive in Trump.
I’m deeply intrigued by this rare moment in progressive journalism and look forward to garnering more information to try and make sense of it all.
The Trump curse strikes again. How odd that a Greatest Ally like Kaplan would represent a total fraud.
Should be interesting to see if President Trump takes the Putin approach to the corrupt lawfare teams.
She’ll never collect a dime on that Trump verdict. But I think I recall that rich libs paid Kaplan.
Roberta is married to a woman? I’m shocked!
Breaking news: People don't like lawyers
Corporate law firms are S&M dungeons. I know. I worked in the biggest and wealthiest. The battle axe feminist harridans who entered the firms in the 1990s were awful beyond belief, and proud of it.
Thank God for the pension.
Every moment in that environment was like burning in Hell.
An acquaintance worked for years for a big law firm and refers to her former employers as "The Psychopaths." She didn't deny that they were brilliant, just utterly contemptable human beings. She took a job elsewhere for half the pay but one-tenth the stress.
@ShoutingThomas - same, same in public education. In the early 90's the WWII and Korean Vets that really knew how to run public schools retired en mass and lefty ideological women took over. What a disaster for Public Education. I'll never forget my first parent teacher principal conference over a badly behaved young male student under the new regieme. The very first thing out of her mouth was "Mr Heartless, what are your classroom management skills lacking that would allow LeCharles to throw a desk across the room?" It went downhill from there. Rapidly.
Woman presides over unprofessional office culture. Say it ain't so.
Progressives are the most miserable people on earth. Give them a position of power and they're both miserable and mean.
Someone commented that people don't like lawyers. True. It's well earned.
"Several people whom she worked with told The Times that she had insulted employees, inappropriately commented on their looks..."
Probably weren't butch enough.
Ann Althouse said...
Breaking news: People don't like lawyers
“Kill all the lawyers” was a guaranteed applause line back when Shakespeare was writing plays.
"Progressives are the most miserable people on earth. Give them a position of power and they're both miserable and mean."
Georgia appellate judge Christina Peterson is one such shining example.
Ms. Kaplan and her wife are deeply connected to the Democratic Party and she has been a heroic figure to many liberal activists.... Several people whom she worked with told The Times that she had insulted employees, inappropriately commented on their looks and threatened to derail people’s careers...."
Breaking news:
"Progressives" epitomize the line "I gave at the office"
For those on the left, "being on the correct side" is the definition of "proper morality", and once they do that, everything else is allowed.
It's why the vast majority of utterly shitty people are on the Left:
1: The press does its best to give you a free pass (since child molester Joe, sexual harasser & rapist Bill Clinton, etc)
2: You can be utterly shitty to everyone around you, while still feeling good about yourself. Send out cops to drag in women to be raped? No big deal, so long as you're "pro Roe"
Absue your employees? No problem, so long as you're a lesbian who attacks Trump
It’s not hard to win a case when you and the judge have the same last name, and I don’t mean Smith or Jones.
This shouldn't surprise anyone. These are not good people.
Kaplan helped defend Harvey Weinstein. She's been big in promoting Jewish causes, not just "Proggressive" ones. She's extremely fat and extremely ugly. But the Left only cares about results, not methods or personalities.
I read the article. It's quite tactful. It doesn't supply any inflammatory details about her behavior. There seems to be a consensus among her colleagues that she behaves "inappropriately" but the sordid details are withheld. I suppose a journalist should tread with caution in providing juicy, possibly defamatory details of her behavior, but the allegations against her are unspecified and vague.
In the Arcturan calendar, 2024 is the year of the lesbian space witches.
“Breaking news: People don't like lawyers”
Yes, but doesn’t that approach just trivialize a well known problem. Why did politicians love Avanti when they all knew he was a crook. The problem is, people like their own crooks just not the crooks of others. If you are useful your badness is ignored.
This corruption and degradation is rampant in law, politics, and the get rich fast venture cap and high flying celeberty ceo business. It’s not general over everyone.
“Ms. Kaplan and her wife are deeply connected to the Democratic Party and she has been a heroic figure to many liberal activists. In addition to litigating the Supreme Court case that laid the groundwork for the national legalization of gay marriage, she became a leader of the #MeToo movement." A petard-worthy list.
See you next Tuesday...
State bar associations have all the power regarding what happens to lawyers. Here it took a threat from the NYT to get action. I don’t think the nyt’s action was altruistic, probably trying to stop the problem from implicating more important people, but why are lawyers seemingly crooked, and why is there punishment in so few cases, Guliani really got it.
Roberta Kaplan? But where is George? Maybe out by the cornfields?
Dave Begley said...
She’ll never collect a dime on that Trump verdict. But I think I recall that rich libs paid Kaplan.
Perhaps our Nebraska lawyer would like to qualify his opinion with some facts surrounding the $83 million jury damage award for abusing E. Jean Carroll in a New York court case. And sadly, there is nothing out there to show that someone other than Jeanie Carroll is responsible for paying her lawyer.
Dave, do you make such loose claims in court? Believing Trump and Alina Habba is not smart.
Andrew Cuomo for mayor of New York City is an interesting idea. I'm so old, I remember when John Lindsay turned down the chance to be Vice President by saying he already held the second most important political office in the U.S.
I don't see any chance of a Republican mayor for NYC, but maybe Cuomo could undo some of the recent damage to the city.
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