Why are some of New York’s most prominent, self-described progressive lawyers working for Jeffrey Epstein’s billionaire friend Leon Black? Ankush Khardori writes
Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Rebecca Smeyne/The New York Times/REDUX It’s been a rough couple of years for Leon Black.
Throughout all this, Black seemed to be working with boutique legal practitioners, such as attorney Susan Estrich , despite losing access to the well-paid legal assistance of the large New York law firms that he grew accustomed to while working at Apollo.
The FT’s story dryly described Karp’s lobbying of Vance on Black’s behalf as “an unusual assignment” for the firm and noted that Karp is “active in Democratic politics and a prominent representative of the New York business community.
Paul, Weiss likes to tout its pro bono work — and does a good amount of it by the standards of the profession, including, most famously, Roberta Kaplan’s successful litigation of the case that effectively legalized gay marriage before she left the firm in 2017 — but in private, Karp has been known to complain about the financial cost of these sorts of efforts while they were ongoing and their success was in doubt.
The story about Karp’s work on behalf of Black may be most interesting, however, not because it is somehow unique, but because it is a very striking example of the morally and civically precarious position of the elite legal profession at a time when public norms and expectations have been shifting.
Of course, it is possible that Ganieva committed a crime by attempting to extort Black. That is the last line of defense for lawyers in situations like this — their client actually deserves the thing that he or she wants, however unseemly it may appear. It is often unconvincing, since superrich people always manage to find someone to represent them and that someone does not need to be you, and because the facts and legal issues tend to be thornier than they let on.
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