{"id":18677,"date":"2026-02-05T19:22:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T19:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/major-law-firms-chair-resigns-after-release-of-epstein-emails\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T19:22:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T19:22:28","slug":"major-law-firms-chair-resigns-after-release-of-epstein-emails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/major-law-firms-chair-resigns-after-release-of-epstein-emails\/","title":{"rendered":"Major law firm&#8217;s chair resigns after release of Epstein emails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The chairman of Paul, Weiss resigned Wednesday after the Department of Justice (DOJ) released email exchanges between him and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein last week. The DOJ&#8217;s release of documents related to Epstein show him and former chair Brad Karp exchanging emails leading up to 2019&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/in-the-know\/5724121-karp-resigns-paul-weiss-jeffrey-epstein\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chairman of Paul, Weiss resigned Wednesday after the Department of Justice (DOJ) released email exchanges between him and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein last week. The DOJ&#8217;s release of documents related to Epstein show him and former chair Brad Karp exchanging emails leading up to 2019&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}