Vivia Chen
Opinion Writer, The Ex-Careerist at Substack
Opinion writer. Commentary on the collision of work, life, and politics —served piquant. Now writing on @Substack. (Ex-columnist @BloombergLaw, @AmericanLawyer)
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1 week ago |
dealbreaker.com | Vivia Chen
YOU BET I WENT to the “No Kings” protest. Despite all the sage advice on how to stay below the radar, I’m outing myself. I’m telling you I was there in Bryant Park, right smack in the middle of Manhattan, holding my handmade sign in the drizzling rain on Saturday, June 14. I would not have missed it, though lots of folks in my friend group sat it out. “I’m getting a facial, then a mani-pedi,” one friend announced when I asked her whether she planned to go to the protest. Another said, “Sorry.
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2 weeks ago |
asianamericans.einnews.com | Vivia Chen
Ed. note: Please welcome Vivia Chen back to the pages of Above the Law. Subscribe to her Substack, “The Ex-Careerist,” here (Opens in a new window). I WAS WALKING along the south edge of Central Park when I saw a woman in handcuffs. I usually pay scant attention to this type of scene (hey, I’m a New Yorker), but this time I stopped. She was a middle-aged Asian woman in cheap, nondescript clothes and sneakers. She didn’t look threatening.
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3 weeks ago |
asianamericans.einnews.com | Vivia Chen
Ed. note: Please welcome Vivia Chen back to the pages of Above the Law. Subscribe to her Substack, “The Ex-Careerist,” here (Opens in a new window). NOT FOR ONE MINUTE DID I BELIEVE Don Liu when he told me last year that he was going to hang it up and smell the flowers. I mean, this guy can’t stay still.
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2 months ago |
abovethelaw.com | Vivia Chen
Ed. note: Please welcome Vivia Chen back to the pages of Above the Law. Subscribe to her Substack, “The Ex-Careerist,”here. STOP, JUST STOP, calling what Donald Trump has extracted from Biglaw “pro bono.”It is such an obvious sham. Yet the media use that term liberally — without quote marks, mind you — as if it were true. To put it bluntly, nine of the nation’s most profitable law firms cut deals with the administration in order to get off the president’s personal shit list.
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Mar 20, 2025 |
abovethelaw.com | Vivia Chen |Sean Fitzpatrick
Ed. note: Please welcome Vivia Chen back to the pages of Above the Law. Subscribe to her Substack, “The Ex-Careerist,”here. THE NUMBER “3” has always struck me as talismanic. That’s the number of wishes you get from the genie. It’s the holy trinity. And, of course, three strikes, you’re out. So when Donald Trump fired off his latest retaliatory executive order against a third major law firm – this time, the powerhouse firm of Paul Weiss – it felt like an inflection point.
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RT @ViviaChen: As an Asian American woman married to a white man, I wonder how #ushavance feels about #JDVance's defense of racists. Does s…
As an Asian American woman married to a white man, I wonder how #ushavance feels about #JDVance's defense of racists. Does she ever look at him and wonder: Who are you? Or ask herself: Who am I for being part of this shitshow? Read my latest: https://t.co/u8MC4sKcbe https://t.co/DexbRBEeJO
I'm with @Liz_Cheney
Rarely has so much ignorance and ahistorical BS been crammed into a single tweet. I know you and @realDonaldTrump are busy surrendering to a KGB butcher, abandoning the cause of freedom, and destroying the security of America and her allies, but you would do well, @JDVance, to