Cleta Mitchell and Foley & Gardner are going to get the Jones Day treatment from TLP

[Gothmog]

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The Lincoln Project got Jones Day to fire trump as a client. This will be fun to watch

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[Nevilledog]

1. Trying to feel bad about that......

......still trying.


Nope. I got nothing.

[Gothmog]

3. I hope that the MT people do another video like they did for Jones Day

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[SunSeeker]

11. Brilliant! I love Midas Touch!

[Nevilledog]

13. Hmmmmm

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Tweet text:
Ben Meiselas
@meiselasb
Jason, I appreciate you are a member of GOP who has spoken out against Trump. But you are listed as a lawyer at @FoleyandLardner and your law partner is the main lawyer advising Trump on the sedition you speak against. You need to take a stand against Foley’s support of this.

Jason Villalba
@JasonVillalba
Fascinating to hear the President of the United States ask an elected official to “find the votes” necessary to overturn a free and fair election of one of the states - and yet, there is no outrage. #WhileAmericaSlept

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10:37 PM · Jan 3, 2021

Co-founder of Meidas Touch

[Gothmog]

16. Foley is an okay large firm and will not like the bad press

[Gothmog]

17. Foley is an okay large firm and will not like the bad press

[Cha]

15. Brilliant.. i love these guys! Rt TY!!

[Irish_Dem]

2. How does that work when an attorney is with her client when he is committing a crime?

Isn't she an officer of the court?

[Gothmog]

4. This generally applies when they are before a tribunal

That is why Rudy and company never alleged voter fraud in all of the lawsuits because lying to a judge is not a good idea.

Here the pressure will be other clients being uncomfortable. Jones Day fired trump due to client pressure

[Irish_Dem]

6. I think LP is working on this strategy...... pressure on her law firm clients. nt

[Gothmog]

36. Cleta Mitchell, who advised Trump on Saturday phone call, resigns from law firm

This was predictable. Big Law does not like radicals

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Republican lawyer Cleta Mitchell, who advised President Trump during his Saturday phone call with Georgia’s secretary of state in an effort to overturn the election, resigned on Tuesday as a partner in the Washington office of the law firm Foley & Lardner.

Mitchell’s resignation came after the law firm on Monday issued a statement saying it was “concerned by” her role in the call. The firm noted that as a matter of policy, its attorneys do not represent “any parties seeking to contest the results of the election.”

The Washington Post on Sunday published audio and a transcript of the hour-long call in which Trump pressured Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to overturn the election results. During the call, Mitchell complained that she had not been given access to certain information from Raffensperger’s office, and Trump relied on her to an extraordinary degree during the call.,....

In its statement on Tuesday, the law firm said: “Cleta Mitchell has informed firm management of her decision to resign from Foley & Lardner effective immediately. Ms. Mitchell concluded that her departure was in the firm’s best interests, as well as in her own personal best interests. We thank her for her contributions to the firm and wish her well.”

[Irish_Dem]

37. Very good. Guess she will have to go work for the GOP crazy train groups. nt

[Nevilledog]

5. If you're seeking to assist your client in committing a crime you don't give a shit about ethics.

[Irish_Dem]

7. Isn't she an accomplice to the crime then? nt

[Nevilledog]

8. I think she is....but my legal opinion might be affected by my blinding hatred of these assholes.

[Irish_Dem]

20. I am not an attorney, and I don't play one on TV, but I think she is guilty as hell.

And belongs in the slammer.

[sprinkleeninow]

22. I'm not an attorney, also don't play one on teevee, but my mom worked for a four attorney firm

for 22 years. 😁

Unethical/committing legal malpractice?

[Irish_Dem]

25. At the very least. Yes

If you and I were with someone who robbed a bank at gun point, I think we would also
be charged.

[sprinkleeninow]

30. Accessory?

I simply cannot even attempt to absorb and process any of this hideous stuff coming down the pike daily.

[SunSeeker]

14. By engaging in a criminal conspiracy with her client, she has blown the attorney client privilege.

Pelosi should subpoena her!

"I just want to find 11,780 votes" and his threats against Raffensperger and his counsel suugesting they will be criminally prostecuted and it will be "costly" to them if they don't overturn the GA election violate 52 U.S. Code § 20511.
https://t.co/ZAtRgiRQmz

[Cha]

9. I like the way TLP Framed that!! "..Overturn

the Will of the GA Voters"!!

Rt TY! We knew earlier that TLP would be ON THIS!!

[SunSeeker]

10. K & R & Retweeted!

[Gothmog]

12. Big firms hate this type of press coverage

Michael Li is a former Baker Botts partner and so he knows how big law firms work

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[struggle4progress]

18. "I was only there to help him threaten GA election officials so chill out!"

[Gothmog]

23. The fact that this attorney participated in a crime is important

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[struggle4progress]

24. +

[Hekate]

19. What is this feeling? Why, it is Schadenfreude!

[Gothmog]

32. Yep

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[Irish_Dem]

21. If you see your client committing a crime, don't you tell them to stop?

End the call, or put it on mute so you can advise your client that committing a felony is not
a good idea?

I don't get it.

[Gothmog]

26. Mitchell describes herself as the consigliere to the vast right-wing conspiracy

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[Gothmog]

27. Foley is not happy

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[Gothmog]

28. Firm Response to Reports of Partner Cleta Mitchell's Involvement in Post-Election Challenges

This is amusing https://www.foley.com/en/insights/news/2021/01/firm-response-reports-partner-cleta-mitchells

Foley & Lardner LLP is not representing any parties seeking to contest the results of the presidential election. In November, the firm made a policy decision not to take on any representation of any party in connection with matters related to the presidential election results. Our policy did allow our attorneys to participate in observing election recounts and similar actions on a voluntary basis in their individual capacity as private citizens so long as they did not act as legal advisers. We are aware of, and are concerned by, Ms. Mitchell’s participation in the January 2 conference call and are working to understand her involvement more thoroughly.
Insights

[dalton99a]

29. She is clearly a valuable asset to the firm

[Gothmog]

31. TLP is going after Foley's clients

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[Hekate]

33. KnR

[Gothmog]

34. Cleta Mitchell, a key figure in president's phone call, was an early backer of Trump's election frau

This idiot is getting the type of press that will be a big law firm uncomfortable

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On Nov. 7, the day that major media organizations projected Joe Biden had won the presidency, Republican attorney Cleta Mitchell appeared on Fox News with her own projection: The election was far from over.

“We’re already double checking and finding dead people having voted, we’re going to be finding people have voted across state lines, voted in two states, illegal voting, noncitizens and that sort of thing. So we are building that case,” Mitchell said, referring to the work of the Trump campaign’s legal team and foreshadowing many of its claims of fraud.

In the following days, Mitchell took particular aim at Biden’s win in Georgia, tweeting that the state’s recount was a “total sham” and “A FAKE!!!” She wrote that the effort was “cover for the SOS,” referring to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. Responding to criticism of her appearance, she tweeted, “Happy to be considered a nut job because I believe in the rule of law.”.....

Mitchell’s role as a Trump legal adviser, which received widespread attention after The Washington Post on Sunday published audio and a transcript of the call, has surprised some colleagues, particularly because she is a partner at a major law firm, Foley & Lardner, that immediately faced questions about whether it endorsed such work.

In a statement Monday, the firm said it was “aware of, and are concerned by, Ms. Mitchell’s participation in the January 2 conference call and are working to understand her involvement more thoroughly.” The firm noted that as a matter of policy, its attorneys do not represent “any parties seeking to contest the results of the presidential election,” although it did allow attorneys to observe recounts voluntarily as private citizens.

[Gothmog]

35. Foley & Lardner To Feel Wrath Of The Lincoln Project

The Lincoln Project got Jones Day to drop trump as a client. This will be fun to watch

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Free advice for all Biglaw firms: you will be held accountable in the court of public opinion for the work you and your partners do. That’s a lesson Jones Day is well acquainted with. As is Porter Wright. And King & Spalding. And Hogan Lovells. You get the point. So if a partner at your firm plays a prominent role in one of the most shocking phone calls in American history, well, you’ve got some ‘splaining to do.

Of course I’m talking about Foley & Lardner partner Cleta Mitchell’s participation in Donald Trump’s harassing of Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to just “find 11,780 votes.” It seems that the never-Trump PAC The Lincoln Project has turned their attention to Biglaw over the incident.

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There are already murmurs of Foley losing business over Mitchell’s involvement in the debacle, and tweets like these from The Lincoln Project only ups the pressure.

And they aren’t the only PAC paying attention to Biglaw. MeidasTouch — remember they are the ones that actually drew first blood in the campaign against Jones Day — has turned their attention to Foley & Lardner. One the the PAC’s founders, Ben Meiselas, partner at Geragos & Geragos, has been very vocal about the firm’s involvement, specifically when Foley attorney Jason Villalba tweeted (though he’s since deleted it) about the now infamous phone call without condemning Mitchell’s involvement.