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Fortune
Brit Morse

A law associate making $300,000 a year at Skadden Arps quit over the firm's deal with Donald Trump

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When Rachel Cohen took a job as an associate at Skadden Arps in Chicago three years ago, she expected long hours, some tedious work, and extremely good pay. What she wasn’t expecting was to be thrust into the middle of a crisis involving her white-shoe firm and the president of the United States. 

In the first few months of his administration, Donald Trump has taken aim at policies he disagrees with in both the public and private sector. But law firms as a category have come under special scrutiny: Trump has signed a number of executive orders targeting specific major legal practices by name. 

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