When Rachel Cohen resigned from her job at a big law firm earlier this year, she was giving up on three years of service and a $300,000 salary. But she found it more important to send a message about President Donald Trump — and her firm's capitulation to an administration she sees as being engaged in extreme overreach and intimidation.
Her resignation “was attempting to get the firms to collectively recognize this moment for what it is: for the real, existential, nonpartisan threat to legal processes and procedures that we're seeing in this country,” Cohen, a former Skadden Arps associate attorney, said during a panel discussion last week.
