I know clients are sacred commodities these days, but for the life of me I cannot figure out why a firm like Mayer Brown needs clients fighting this kind of cause.
Recently, the firm filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Glendale, Calif., seeking the removal from a city park of a statue honoring “comfort women” — women from Korea, China and other parts of Asia who were forced into sexual slavery by Japan to service its military during World War II. (The bronze memorial depicts a young girl in traditional Korean clothes, sitting on a chair, next to an empty chair.)
