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Cleta Mitchell -- ... -- was featured in this clip that went viral in November. (Original Post) demmiblue Jan 2021 OP
Foley & Lardner To Feel Wrath Of The Lincoln Project Gothmog Jan 2021 #1
Hopefully, she'll soon be retiring to spend more time with her family. MerryBlooms Jan 2021 #4
Cleta Mitchell, who advised Trump on Saturday phone call, resigns from law firm Gothmog Jan 2021 #5
She's quite the conspiritorial type Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2021 #2
R&K Thank you. MerryBlooms Jan 2021 #3

Gothmog

(151,651 posts)
1. Foley & Lardner To Feel Wrath Of The Lincoln Project
Tue Jan 5, 2021, 01:48 AM
Jan 2021

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




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.


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.

MerryBlooms

(11,868 posts)
4. Hopefully, she'll soon be retiring to spend more time with her family.
Tue Jan 5, 2021, 02:15 AM
Jan 2021

Then disbarred. No doubt if that retirement occurs, she'll be set for life financially. She's a partner, so the firm will have to buy their way out of her mess. Hopefully, the damage is done and Foley & Lardner will experience great financial loss. The longer this goes on, the higher their financial risk.

Gothmog

(151,651 posts)
5. Cleta Mitchell, who advised Trump on Saturday phone call, resigns from law firm
Tue Jan 5, 2021, 07:11 PM
Jan 2021

This was predictable. Big Law does not like radicals




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.”
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