Big Law's Corruption Of Justice | David Enrich | TMR

David Enrich, the NYT's Business Investigations Editor, has written a book exposing the power wielded by the world's largest law firms. Enrich focuses on Jones Day, one of the largest law firms, which has deep ties to corporate interests and conservative politics. Jones Day has represented Donald Trump and his campaigns and has defended his policies and challenged the legitimacy of the 2020 election. The firm has a history of defending Big Tobacco, the Catholic Church, Purdue Pharma, Fox News, and Russian oligarchs. Enrich argues that law firms like Jones Day play a crucial yet hidden role in protecting powerful bad actors in society and earning billions in revenue for themselves.

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Joining us David enriched. is the business investigations editor at the New York Times. author of Servants of the Damned giant law firms Donald Trump and the corruption of Justice. David is welcome to the program. Thanks for having me. I will I want to ask you how you first led to writing this book. But I have to say for years, in fact, in 2011 Fran Leibowitz was on the program and I asked her why she thought there was an increase of money as a value in our country. And she said something that made my jaw drop because it is the one thing I remember as a child. And that was when lawyers got the opportunity to advertise. and she pegged it on that and I have very little memory of a child as a child. But I do remember the day that lawyers were allowed to advertise because it was like somebody died in my family. I was raised by lawyers. and the idea that lawyers would advertise was like sacrilege. it was like it was literally like priests putting ads out you know as far as my father was concerned. And you cite that as one of the two biggest sorts of I guess catalysts for the legal profession in many respects. I mean you're writing about one particular firm going off the rails here. With that said, before you get to the second one just back up and tell us how that manifested itself. What's changed in the legal profession from your perspective? Well, the legal profession as you kind of alluded to as long you know it considered itself to be centered on these Notions of the pursuit of fairness honesty truth, and Justice. And that is I think to a large extent been replaced by this idea of trying to win at all costs. And that is driven in part by a desire to make money. It's just part of an ambition to achieve power. And it's manifested itself in a lot of ways. And I think the biggest is the rise of these Mega Global law firms that until a few decades ago really just didn't exist. And law firms to the extent that they existed at all were really clusters of lawyers in one city or one region of the country that were focused on serving companies or individuals in those regions of the country. and today and this is not something that just happened. This has been an evolution over the past few decades. But today these giant law firms span the globe they have thousands of lawyers and dozens of offices all over the world.