Facilitating commercial activity means nothing without the rule of law. Commercial activity is unreliable and unsustainable without the rule of law. If BigLaw is so important to commerce (as Geffen claims) , then why not prove it by leveraging their ‘essential’ bargaining power to challenge a wayward executive branch?

If BigLaw can’t flex their muscles to help save the American republic (or are unwilling to do so), then that means they are far more expendable – and I daresay irrelevant – to commerce and wider society than their glossy brochures would have us believe. But it cannot cut both ways.