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Trump Deals Show Big Law Long Ago Chose Business Over Profession

“Law firms represent moneyed interests, so there is an inherent conflict here,” said Bill Henderson, a law professor at Indiana University. “They are in bed making a good living with these clients, and there are social consequences to that. And then one day they have to wake up to defend the rule of law?”

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New York mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo worked as a paid adviser to an offshore cryptocurrency exchange as it dealt with a federal investigation before it pleaded guilty to operating illegally in the US, according to two people familiar with the matter.