After his clerkship, he worked at the law firm of Paul Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton, and Garrison.
Despite this history, Paul, Weiss attorneys were apparently so confident that the DOJ could be cowed into submission that they provided the court with exhibits-letters, emails and court filings-documenting gross violations of the protective order by other habeas attorneys whose access was not cut off, ostensibly to show that Paul, Weiss was being treated unfairly.
Worse, the investigation showed that Ms. Mason's clients passed it to other detainees not represented by Paul, Weiss lawyers.
Ultimately, the government would reach a settlement with the Paul, Weiss lawyers.
The bulk of that came as a loan from her father, Jay Topkis, a semiretired partner at the New York firm of Paul, Weiss.
Meanwhile, the public can decide whether the lawyers at Paul, Weiss who are volunteering at Guantanamo are an example of the legal profession's noblest traditions.
"To list, you have to get approval from a state listing committee, " says Jia Yan, a China specialist with the Wall Street law firm Paul, Weiss.
He banned the Paul, Weiss lawyers from access to Guantanamo.
If the stated intent was to show that the government had singled out Paul, Weiss attorneys, the unstated purpose was to demonstrate something even more significant to the government's lawyers.
"We are excited by this new invention on transparent solar cells, which applied our recent advances in transparent conducting windows (also published in ACS Nano) to fabricate these devices, " said Paul S.Weiss, CNSI director and Fred Kavli Chair in NanoSystems Sciences.
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