'Maximum Damage': Law Firm Partners Learn The Hard Way Never To Put Offensive Things In Writing
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Boutique Law Firms
Jun 2023
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This is about as bad as it gets when it comes to negative publicity. You don't often see this level of misogynistic, racist and antisemitic content because people--even horrible people--know better than to put things in writing. The timing of it all, not just for John Barber and Jeff Ranen, but for the dozens of attorneys and staff who followed them to start the new firm, is atrocious.
-- Zach Olsen, president of PR firm Infinite Global, in comments given to the American Lawyer on the trove of offensive emails that served as the undoing of Barber Ranen about a month after the firm was first formed after breaking away from Lewis Brisbois. Joshua Peck, owner and founder of Joshua Peck Legal Communications, also gave his thoughts to Am Law, and said of the situation that "it would appear Lewis Brisbois wants to do the maximum damage" since it was reportedly the firm's PR team that sent Barber's and Ranen's antisemitic email exchanges to the Forward, a newspaper that covers of issues of note for the Jewish community.
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this is about as bad as it gets when it comes to negative publicity. you dona??t often see this level of misogynistic
racist and antisemitic content because peoplea??even horrible peoplea??know better than to put things in writing. the timing of it all
not just for john barber and jeff ranen
but for the dozens of attorneys and staff who followed them to start the new firm
is atrocious.
a?? zach olsen
president of pr firm infinite glo
