#WhyIAmASolo - No One Can Tell Me What Clients To Represent.

Big Law Censorship Problem. Does your law firm control whom you represent? Are you prevented, or discouraged, from representing politically sensitive clients or causes? Whether left or right, being a lawyer should be a neutral, advocacy centered, occupation,  and lawyers should be able to represent whomever they want to. The freedom to do that is being denied to some really competent lawyers in some really big law firms. Whatever happened to the concept that every citizen deserves a competent lawyer? This article discusses the resignation from Kirkland & Ellis of two prominent Supreme Court litigators, Paul Clement and Erin Murphy. They were told they had to leave the firm because they had represented the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association in its challenge of New York gun regulations. While such high profile litigation clients would never hire a solo, no one can tell me whom I can represent. A free, and independent, lawyer class, is all that stands between us and chaos.