Brad Karp Resigns as Paul Weiss Chairman Amid Epstein Fallout [View all]

Source: The New York Times

Brad Karp, the longtime chairman of Paul Weiss, one of the nation’s top corporate law firms, suddenly resigned on Wednesday evening after a series of embarrassing emails between him and Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier, became public in recent days.

The law firm’s statement announcing Mr. Karp’s resignation gave no explanation for his decision. But it included a quote from him saying, “Recent reporting has created a distraction and has placed a focus on me that is not in the best interests of the firm.”

In recent weeks, a number of top business executives, academics and politicians have faced negative attention stemming from email and text conversations they had with Mr. Epstein long after he pleaded guilty in 2008 to soliciting prostitution from a minor girl and registered as a sex offender.

Mr. Karp had been under intense scrutiny within the broader legal community after Paul Weiss reached a deal last year with President Trump to resolve an executive order that could have harmed its business. He had appeared to weather the storm.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/business/brad-karp-paul-weiss-resigns-epstein.html

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This schiffoso sold out his whole firm to Trump, probably under threat of blackmail, and then the blackmail came out anyway and he's now gotta resign. I love that for him.

Fuck Brad Karp.