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    1. REUP: Many U.S. law/lobbying firms are dropping Russian clients. But Skadden Arps appears to be continuing to represent Alfa Bank of Mikhail Fridman, whom the EU sanctioned this week as “a top Russian financier and enabler of Putin’s inner circle.” nytimes.com/live/2022/03/01/world/ukraine-russia-war/many-but-not-all-us-law-and-lobbying-firms-drop-russian-clients
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    One Skadden Arps lawyer working for Alfa Bank, Margaret Krawiec, didn't respond to email/voicemail. Nor did firm PR staff. Another Skadden lawyer working for Alfa, Michael McIntosh, hung up on me. Skadden's executive partner, Eric J. Friedman, ignored msg I left with his asst.
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      UPDATE: Alfa Bank is abruptly dropping the Durham-paralleling lawsuit for which Skadden Arps has been representing it. (This is a sudden turnaround: the lawyers recently asked the court to extend the case to July, and the judge hadn't ruled on that motion yet.)
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        Deleting and reposting this small correction because it is confusing people. The above tweet was wrong to say the judge hadn't ruled on their motion to extend the case to July; she had granted their time extension last week, before they abruptly dropped the case today anyway.
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          For people asking about why I described Skadden Arps' Alfa Bank lawsuit as "Durham paralleling," they've been using subpoenas for docs/depositions to investigate the origins of the Trump-Alfa server claims just like Durham. See e.g. this @emptywheel piece: emptywheel.net/2022/03/01/john-durham-and-newly-sanctioned-alfa-banks-filings-almost-like-they-were-written-by-the-same-people/
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