Israeli airstrikes on Gaza (Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu via Getty Images)
As a lawyer, you want to support freedom of speech. But at the end of the day this is a private law firm and they can do whatever they want.
— Stephanie Biderman, a partner at legal recruiting firm Major Lindsey & Africa, reflecting on Winston & Strawn’s decision to revoke an offer full time employment to NYU Law student Ryna Workman after their statement branding the Hamas attacks as “necessary.” Dean of University of California Berkeley Law School, Erwin Chemerinsky, said though Workman has a right to express their opinion, “I am saddened and outraged by those who would defend what Hamas did. I—and others—have the right to condemn those views. And employers have the right to decide that they don’t want to employ individuals who express those views.”