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Welcome
to
our
daily
feature,
Quote
of
the
Day.
I
think
partners
and
attorneys
at
these
firms
are
going
to
have
to
make
their
individual
choice
regarding
whether
they’re
willing
to
continue
to
practice
at
a
place
that’s
…
not
standing
up
to
attacks
on
the
Constitution.
You,
as
law
students,
have
a
choice
to
make:
if
you
think
you’re
going
to
a
law
firm,
one
of
the
criteria—maybe
the
criteria—to
use
to
decide
is
whether
you
want
to
go
to
law
firms
that
fought
that
or
law
firms
that
capitulated.
—
Dean
Erwin
Chemerinsky
of
UC
Berkeley
Law,
in
comments
given
during
during
a
presentation
exploring
the
role
that
lawyers
and
their
firms
play
in
protecting
the
rule
of
law
in
America,
where
he
encouraged
students
to
stand
up
for
what
they
believe
is
right
when
making
career
decisions.
Chermerinsky
went
on
to
say
he
thought
that
if
law
firms
had
presented
a
united
front
challenging
Trump’s
punitive
executive
orders
rather
than
entering
into
questionable
deals,
the
firms
would
likely
have
won,
and
Trump
perhaps
would
have
changed
his
tune
after
a
string
of
court
losses.
“I
think
this
would
have
gone
away
relatively
quickly,”
he
said.
Staci
Zaretsky is
a
senior
editor
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Law,
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worked
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2011.
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