Thread by @DavidLat

1/ Robin Keller, until recently a retired equity partner at @HoganLovells who was still serving clients, writes for @WSJopinion about how the firm fired her for defending the #SCOTUS decision in Dobbs (which overruled Roe and Casey).

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2/ For background, here's a July 2022 story by @Kathryn1 for @ATLblog about the controversial call where Robin Keller shared her views on Dobbs and abortion. Keller was suspended soon after.

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3/ I expect I'll have more to say about Robin Keller and Hogan Lovells later.

For now, see my Notice and Comment post from last month, "Can A Conservative Work In Biglaw," and the almost 100 comments it garnered.

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4/ I've reached out to both Robin Keller & @HoganLovells for comment & additional information.

If I have more thoughts on this, I'll share them in a post on Original Jurisdiction (not here on Twitter). I'll add that post to this thread if & when I write it.

5/ HoLove: "As a firm we fully encourage our people to share their views on important issues that matter to them, but we expect our people to conduct themselves in accordance with firm policies. We value our differences, which make us stronger as a firm."

6/ Folks have criticized me for saying Robin Keller was fired for defending Dobbs when, in their view, she was fired for her "genocide" comparison.

I'm not going to die on the hill of defending Keller's specific comments; I don't need to.

7/ After Keller's WSJ op-ed was published, I heard from a different female Biglaw equity partner who WAS fired for plain-vanilla Dobbs support. Story at 11.

(Okay, not 11—more like sometime tomorrow—I'm still talking to this partner and writing it up.)

8/ In the meantime, here's a poll.

Should telling co-workers that you support the #SCOTUS decision in Dobbs be a firing offense in Biglaw?

9/ A Biglaw partner got fired for supporting—or, more precisely, for not opposing—the #SCOTUS decision in Dobbs.

Please READ my story before replying. It is NOT about Robin Keller of Hogan Lovells (but I discuss Robin's case too).👇

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