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Servants of the Damned

Giant Law Firms and the Corruption of Justice

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A long-overdue exposé of the astonishing yet shadowy power wielded by the world's largest law firms.

Though not a household name, Jones Day is well known in the halls of power, and serves as a powerful encapsulation of the changes that have swept the legal profession in recent decades. Founded in the US in 1893, it has become one of the world's largest law firms, a global juggernaut with deep ties to corporate interests and conservative politics.

A key player in the legal battles surrounding the Trump administration, Jones Day has also for decades represented Big Tobacco, defended opioid manufacturers, and worked tirelessly to minimise the sexual-abuse scandals of the Catholic Church. Like many of its peers, it has fought time and again for those who want nothing more than to act without constraint or scrutiny — including the Russian oligarchs as they have sought to expand internationally.

In this gripping and revealing new work of narrative nonfiction, the New York Times Business Investigations Editor and bestselling author David Enrich at last tells the story of 'Big Law' and the nearly unchecked influence these firms wield to shield the wealthy and powerful — and bury their secrets.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      August 8, 2022
      The legal industry has sold its soul to deep-pocketed corporations and polarizing politicians, according to this impassioned indictment of international law firm Jones Day and its peers. New York Times reporter Enrich (Dark Towers) deplores Jones Day’s role in defeating lawsuits against tobacco company R.J. Reynolds and defending Abbott Laboratories from a claim that bacterial contamination in its Similac infant formula caused meningitis and brain damage in a newborn. He also rehashes the firm’s entanglement with Donald Trump: Jones Day alumnus Don McGahn became Trump’s White House counsel, vetting all judicial appointments; other alumni in the Justice Department tried to quash federal investigations into the opioid-selling practices of Jones Day client Walmart; and the firm represented Trump in lawsuits to overturn the 2020 election results in Pennsylvania. Enrich’s history of Jones Day probes the corrosion of ethics after the advent of law firm ads in the 1970s touched off a spiral of money-grubbing, and sketches engrossing vignettes of the predatory culture that resulted. Enrich’s condemnations of corporations and their lawyers aren’t always ironclad—he brushes aside testing results that found no contamination in Abbott’s formula—but he delivers a vivid, crackling account of the law at its most bullying. Readers will be outraged. Agent: Dan Mandel, Sanford J. Greenburger Assoc.

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