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Obv. Perkins Coie and Marc Elias but wanted to know if there were any other biglaw/boutiques tied to the Democratic Party like Jones Day and Consovoy to Republicans.

Wilmer

Paul,,, Weiss

Jenner & Block

Gupta Wessler is probably the gold standard. But most BigLaw firms handle liberal cases, the reason the boutiques exist on the conservative side is because BigLaw firms refuse to handle the socially conservative cases (like when King and Spaulding pulled their representation in Windsor and Paul Clement quit and started Bancroft in protest)

Debevoise has been involved in a lot of stuff recently. I think they assisted house democrats with both Tump impeachments, and a former judge that's now a partner there was tapped as amicus in the Michael Flynn case.

Kaplan Hecker

The answer depends on whether you're talking about connections to the Democrat political establishment, presence of an overall "liberal" culture, or focus on "liberal" public interest litigation.

In addition to Perkins, who has the DNC as a paying client, the following firms were doing a significant amount of volunteer work for the Biden campaign last fall: Wilmer, Munger, O'Melveny, Covington, Latham, Cooley, Kellogg Hansen. Jenner may have been involved as well, but don't think so (apparently firm management is extremely strict about these things). All these firms have prominent partners (particularly in their DC offices) with significant connections to the Clinton & Obama administrations.

By contrast, Paul Weiss has a reputation for an overall "liberal" culture but Paul Weiss's DC office/new appellate group is identifiably "conservative." As a result, although I imagine the average lawyer at Paul Weiss is a Democrat, Paul Weiss wouldn't be a great place to go if what you're looking for is a real connection to the Democrat political establishment.

Gupta Wessler is not really an option because they rarely hire new lawyers (they do have a yearly fellowship) and they're also not really connected to the Democrat political establishment. I imagine Kaplan Hecker is a better option on both fronts, but DC office is too small/new to say with any certainty.

If it’s just a question of what law firms have a lot of liberals in them, it’s all of them, even the ones that work for Trump.