This Law Student Refused to Let Big Firms Get Away with Quiet Complicity
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🗓️ 17 June 2025
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OA1167 - Georgetown law student Mari Latibashvili is the co-founder of the GU Law Coalition for Justice, which recently made national headlines by organizing law students to refuse interviews and job offers from law firms which have given in to the Trump administration’s war on the legal profession. We discuss (among other things) this remarkably successful campaign, what life in law school has been like since the November 2024 election, and the growing influence of abolitionism among law students and new lawyers.
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Spreadsheet assembled by Georgetown Coalition of Students for Justice cataloging hundreds of law firms and their responses to the Trump administration’s executive orders targeting specific law firms
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“Law students organize to give Trump-caving law firms a recruitment problem,” Adam Klasfeld, All Rise News (4/25/2025)
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Amicus brief filed by 1,129 law students in the Susman Godfrey litigation against the Trump administration
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| 0:00.0 | You must never ever give out or give in. You must keep the faith and keep your eyes on the prize. |
| 0:07.6 | That is your calling. That is your mission. That is your moral obligation. That is your mandate. |
| 0:13.4 | Get out there and do it. Get in the way. Change happens because people care. |
| 0:26.6 | You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. |
| 0:36.6 | I still believe with all my heart, America can't. free and beautiful to make this life a wonderful adventure. |
| 0:44.1 | I still believe with all my heart, America can be a place where no child is left hungry, |
| 0:47.9 | no community is left behind, and no one gets told they don't belong. |
| 0:55.1 | The fight for our country is always worth it. |
| 0:59.8 | Hello and welcome to opening arguments. |
| 1:01.9 | This is episode 1167. |
| 1:07.3 | I'm your host Thomas Smith and I'll be joined in a moment by real life immigration attorney Matt Cameron and a very special guest. |
| 1:10.1 | Today's guest is the kind of person that just |
| 1:12.1 | really inspires me, really makes me feel like there's a chance we could get all this crap figured |
| 1:17.1 | out someday. Mari La de Boshvili is a law student and an activist and somebody who, this type of person, |
| 1:24.3 | I'm just blown away by. It's the kind of person that just does stuff |
| 1:27.7 | that just organizes. I feel like many of us are like, boy, someone should do something. And then there's |
| 1:32.2 | another type of person that's like, I'm doing something. They don't even say anything. They're just |
| 1:36.5 | like in brackets doing something. But this is the kind of interview that I think will put you in a good |
| 1:40.8 | mood, put a little spring in your step. And I feel like this kind of energy is inspiring and might inspire others. So we talk about it in the interview, but Mari La de Boshvili is a law |
| 1:49.1 | student who, when major law firm started caving to Trump, decided to, with some other student |
| 1:55.0 | organizers, make a spreadsheet about it. But it's more than just a spreadsheet. It's a very |
| 1:59.9 | important spreadsheet. It's a good spreadsheet. Documenting and sort of catalog's more than just a spreadsheet. It's a very important spreadsheet. It's a good |
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