As someone very familiar with the legal profession, the ABA and Jones Day, I found this interview to be astonishing. That someone could devote so much time to a subject and be so totally off base is stunning. He has no comprehension (at least based on the interview, and I will read the book out of curiosity) of what drives law firms (the larger and smaller ones), of the different niches in the industry, about why it isn't regulated, about the role of the ABA (which is completely political and, if anything, embodies all of the ill attributes the author cites, more than any single law firm), and even the ills of the part of the industry that destroys innocent victims of sloppy journalism.
If there is any quasi-profession that merits investigation for its immense harm to the country, it is journalism -- totally unregulated, zero barriers to entry, often either uneducated or largely uneducated writers with passionate views on fields about which they know little) with TV news having an immense and negative impact on voting -- more than any other force -- yet how many journalists are willing to investigate journalism and its corruption through protecting sources, etc?
What really "triggers" Enrich is Trump. But that's hardly news. We could all write angry books about his enablers. But McGhan is one who turned on him when bad issues were investigated. So Enrich blames a tiny handful of Jones Day's 2500 lawyers because the tiny handful worked for Trump and appoints judges he doesn't like. Has he seen the judges being appointed by Biden? Lawyers have been, for reasons good and bad, mostly good, going in and out of government for over a century, starting heavily with FDR. Why waste time on Jones Day when you have Covington & Burling, which has the largest practice of influence on government agencies (and where Eric Holder is)? Retro-prediction: if Jones Day had sent the same number of lawyers to the Obama administration and played the same role in Obama's judicial appointments, his book would not have been written. Or certainly would not have focused on Jones Day.
Enrich, were he being graded through the lens of reality, gets a D.
Comment from Jones Day's black manager of US operations: https://www.wsj.com/articles/first-smear-all-the-lawyers-jones-day-clients-political-agenda-narrative-legal-representation-regulations-anonymous-sources-11663767476?mod=opinion_lead_pos6
As someone very familiar with the legal profession, the ABA and Jones Day, I found this interview to be astonishing. That someone could devote so much time to a subject and be so totally off base is stunning. He has no comprehension (at least based on the interview, and I will read the book out of curiosity) of what drives law firms (the larger and smaller ones), of the different niches in the industry, about why it isn't regulated, about the role of the ABA (which is completely political and, if anything, embodies all of the ill attributes the author cites, more than any single law firm), and even the ills of the part of the industry that destroys innocent victims of sloppy journalism.
If there is any quasi-profession that merits investigation for its immense harm to the country, it is journalism -- totally unregulated, zero barriers to entry, often either uneducated or largely uneducated writers with passionate views on fields about which they know little) with TV news having an immense and negative impact on voting -- more than any other force -- yet how many journalists are willing to investigate journalism and its corruption through protecting sources, etc?
What really "triggers" Enrich is Trump. But that's hardly news. We could all write angry books about his enablers. But McGhan is one who turned on him when bad issues were investigated. So Enrich blames a tiny handful of Jones Day's 2500 lawyers because the tiny handful worked for Trump and appoints judges he doesn't like. Has he seen the judges being appointed by Biden? Lawyers have been, for reasons good and bad, mostly good, going in and out of government for over a century, starting heavily with FDR. Why waste time on Jones Day when you have Covington & Burling, which has the largest practice of influence on government agencies (and where Eric Holder is)? Retro-prediction: if Jones Day had sent the same number of lawyers to the Obama administration and played the same role in Obama's judicial appointments, his book would not have been written. Or certainly would not have focused on Jones Day.
Enrich, were he being graded through the lens of reality, gets a D.