Servants of the Damned Quotes

“We had a partner at Jones Day who always described the perfect client as someone who was rich, pissed off, and wrong.”
― David Enrich, Servants of the Damned: Giant Law Firms, Donald Trump, and the Corruption of Justice

“In some ways, the tobacco work was the cultural glue that kept Jones Day together. So many of the firm’s lawyers at one point or another had worked on an RJR matter—and so many had gotten their first courtroom experience on a tobacco case. It was an ideal training ground, and it had the side benefit of desensitizing young lawyers to working for noxious clients.”
― David Enrich, Servants of the Damned: Giant Law Firms, Donald Trump, and the Corruption of Justice

“At the time, cigarette companies were desperately searching for evidence that maybe, just maybe, their products didn’t kill their customers.”
― David Enrich, Servants of the Damned: Giant Law Firms, Donald Trump, and the Corruption of Justice

“(The Ohio Supreme Court ruled that a woman having hysterics “is so common an occurrence” that the accusation, though untrue, was not libelous.)25”
― David Enrich, Servants of the Damned: Giant Law Firms, Donald Trump, and the Corruption of Justice

“Citing the constitutional right to counsel is a convenient way for giant firms to rationalize this representation and to preempt criticism—or even scrutiny—of whom elite lawyers serve and how they serve them.”
― David Enrich, Servants of the Damned: Giant Law Firms, Donald Trump, and the Corruption of Justice

“On January 6, months of fearmongering and lies about voter fraud and a stolen election exploded into a deadly insurrection. Jones Day wasn't to blame, but it wasn't not to blame either. The firm had contributed to misapprehensions about the vulnerability of the electoral system. More important, it had nurtured, protected, and enabled Donald Trump since long before anyone took his candidacy seriously and for long after his demagogy was impossible to miss. Now the costs were clear. (303)”
― David Enrich, Servants of the Damned: Giant Law Firms, Donald Trump, and the Corruption of Justice