True to form, when Paul Weiss partner Kannon Shanmugam faced a little challenge, did he fight back? Did he stick up for his firm? Did he advocate on his own behalf?

Lol. Of course not! He tried to hide.

#CapitulationFirmLawyer

Lets crowdsource every #CapitulationFirmLawyer on Bluesky.

A start:

@kannonshanmugam.bsky.social

@nealkatyal.bsky.social

@douglasemhoff.bsky.social

@maxsiegel.bsky.social

Hero!

THANK YOU KANNON AND PAUL WEISS WE COULDN’T HAVE DONE IT WITHOUT YOU! 😘

#CapitulationFirmLawyer

@abovethelaw.com @joepatrice.bsky.social

abovethelaw.com/2025/10/capi...

O.M.G.

Sweet lord this is glorious

The firms that settled with Trump instead of fighting for their constitutional rights, will always sell out their clients to Trump. Who in their right mind would hire a law firm to defend them against the govt or Trumps policies, knowing the firm has already bent a knee to him and kissed his ass.

Paul Weiss partner Kannon Shanmugam blocking me seems not that brilliant. His posts here get a handful of likes. Don’t #CapitulationFirmLawyers learn about the Streisand Effect, @elienyc.bsky.social?

Hey @abovethelaw.com, Paul Weiss partner Kannon Shanmugam instantly blocked me when I replied to his post with #CapitulationFirmLawyer.

Touchy, touchy.

Adam Serwer nails it here.

“These cascading acts of cowardice from the people best positioned to resist Trump’s authoritarian power grabs have made Trump seem exponentially more powerful than he actually is”

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

<catches breath>

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Assholes.

Over the past several months, Cadwalader has lost more than 40 partners…Some partners viewed the deal as a capitulation, prompting their resignations in protest.

abovethelaw.com/2025/09/wall...

“If the firms had just stuck together no one would be in this tough place of having to capitulate or suffer consequences. Super disappointed in Paul Weiss, Latham, Kirkland, etc. and they were all immediately taken off my list of places to work.”
@abovethelaw.com

abovethelaw.com/2025/09/summ...

Are the Law Firm Settlements with the Trump Administration Illegal? @dorfonlaw.bsky.social

verdict.justia.com/2025/09/26/a...

See, eg, the law firms that fought and the ones that didn’t.

"Pro bono was the only part of BigLaw not squarely dedicated to enhancing corporate power. Firms that surrender their pro bono practices to Trump are surrendering both the rights of people who counted on them, and the pretense that the firm ever cared."

The Biglaw surrender crew wrote letters to explain themselves to Congress. There are some comically bad responses.

A result of Skadden's compliance with Trump and his corruption of the institution of law.
Skadden held talks to provide unpaid legal work for Heritage Foundation www.ft.com/content/8927... via @ft

Rachel Cohen, the lawyer who loudly quit Skadden when the firm decided to preemptively offer the Trump admin free legal services, has noticed something: the firms that bent the knee to MAGA are now being hired by Big Biz to negotiate corporations’ surrender terms (er, deals) for Trump’s takeover.

How media & law firms could defend democracy: "[H]e fired the legal giant Skadden Arps after learning it had struck a settlement w/Trump, telling staff that Anthropic wouldn’t work w/law firms he felt were caving to an assault on the rule of law. He is also cutting ties w/Latham," which settled.

Attn: law firms