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Oct. 26, 2022, 12:32 PM

Manhattan’s Cadwalader represented Ye In Gap dispute last month

Adidas, other brands have severed ties with Ye after comments

Manhattan law firm Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft has parted ways with Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, in the wake of recent antisemitic remarks by the rapper and designer.

“We are not presently providing any representation and have no intention of providing any future representation,” a Cadwalader spokesman said via email Wednesday.

Nicholas Gravante, a leader of the firm’s litigation group, and several other Cadwalader attorneys represented Ye last month in his move to terminate his partnership with Gap Inc. The lawyers sent a letter to Gap saying the retailer failed to release apparel and open stores, as stipulated in a contract, Bloomberg News reported.

Major brands such as Adidas and Kering SA fashion label Balenciaga have over the past week severed ties with Ye, who earlier this month tweeted that he wants to go “death con 3 on Jewish people.” Twitter suspended his account following the remark.

Ye also caused an uproar after wearing a shirt with the slogan, “White Lives Matter,” during Paris fashion week.

Law firm Brown Rudnick, which represented Johnny Depp in a high-profile defamation trial earlier this year, is also no longer working for Ye, according to a report from the New York Post.

The firm declined to comment.

To contact the reporter on this story: Justin Wise at jwise@bloombergindustry.com

To contact the editors responsible for this story: Chris Opfer at copfer@bloomberglaw.com; John Hughes at jhughes@bloombergindustry.com

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5220280&forum_id=2#45392155)

Same Jewish lawyers: We cannot work with someone who suggested that Jews have a large influence in media.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5220280&forum_id=2#45392212)

they almost certainly do, just financial criminals

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5220280&forum_id=2#45392395)

every lawyer defending people in criminal matters represents criminals because 99% of people who get indicted are guilty.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5220280&forum_id=2#45392553)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5220280&forum_id=2#45392231)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5220280&forum_id=2#45392250)

LGBT Network Name Change Clinic

The firm’s LGBT Network (CLN) partners with the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund’s (TLDEF) Name Change Project to provide free legal name change services to low-income transgender people. Securing a legal name change is an important step toward making many transgender individuals’ legal identities match their lived experience. Navigating the court system can be intimidating without counsel. Our program provides the legal representation clients need to successfully complete the process and move forward with their lives..

https://www.cadwalader.com/about/pro-bono-public-service

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5220280&forum_id=2#45392251)

Then the firm added my work for this group to my firm bio and I had to tell them to take it off.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5220280&forum_id=2#45392548)

globohomoanity has no concept of redemption; once a sinner always

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5220280&forum_id=2#45392422)

https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/top_boies_schiller_litigator_sues_his_mother_for_defamation

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5220280&forum_id=2#45392428)

mom has to sue her kids because they're stealing rental $ from her, kids ADMIT they are stealing money but claim they're using the money on the same things that she would've spent it on, anyway (paying their own kids' tuition)

kids countersue as a group, and this guy files his own personal lawsuit against her alleging defamation because she said mean things about him on the phone

I can't even imagine

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5220280&forum_id=2#45392525)

I guess they figured the press about cutting Ye brings more to their bottom line than any legal fees Ye would generate, otherwise this is a head scratcher coming from CWT who only cares about the bottom line.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5220280&forum_id=2#45392796)