Summary of Servants of the Damned By David Enrich: Giant Law Firms, Donald Trump, and the Corruption of Justice

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NYT Business Investigations Editor reveals the dark side of American law. David Enrich traces how one firm shielded opioid makers, gun companies, big tobacco, Russian oligarchs, Fox News, and much of the Fortune 500. Jones Day has been in the spotlight for representing Donald Trump and his campaigns (and now his PACs). Jones Day, like many of its peers, has become effective enablers of the business world's worst misbehavior. The law firm worked tirelessly for the Catholic Church as it tried to minimize its sexual-abuse scandals. And for Fox News as it waged war against employees who were the victims of sexual harassment.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Willie M. Joseph
• Release date: Sep 21, 2022
• ISBN: 9798215342787

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Summary of

Servants of the Damned

By

David Enrich

Giant Law Firms, Donald Trump, and the Corruption of Justice

––––––––

Willie M. Joseph

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Contents

Summary Part I

A Hustling Business

The Independence Principle

A Truly National Firm

Advertisers-at-Law

Creating a Monster

Keeping Up with the Jones Days

The Greatest Client

Aiding and Abetting

Judas Day

Workbook Part One

Summary Part II

The Full Fredo

Try to Save the Culture

Rogue Lawyers

Burning the Envelope

Make It Go Away

Psychological Combat

Dirty, Dirty, Dirty

Lurching to the Right

Workbook Part Two

Summary Part III

The Bloody Eighth

Trump’s Stallion

You Can Count Me In

A Lawless Hobbesian Nightmare

A Nice Little Cushion

Rich, Pissed Off, and Wrong

Subsidizing Trump

25 Bizarre Coincidences

Redefining Shamefulness

No Vacancy Left Behind

Fearmongering

We Dissent

Epilogue

The Black Book

Workbook Part Three

Power Play

These lawyers were leaving the law firm to join the new Trump administration. The Capitol Police argued that it would provide snipers with an ideal nest from which to pick off senators. In 2005 the chamber approved a measure that essentially blocked the building's construction. The firm's offices are on the top floor of its Capitol Hill campus, overlooking the Capitol and the Potomac River. In summer, it was a verdant landscape of plush lawns and colorful bushes and a garden.

They were celebrating the arrival of this once-obscure law firm as a true power player in Washington. The reception was to toast the landing party that Jones Day was dispatching to get the Trump administration started. Jones Day became a symbol of a well-orchestrained assault on the American electoral system. The firm's lawyers were trying to make it harder for mail-in ballots to count in Pennsylvania. Another team was helping Walmart, whose pharmacies dished out opioids