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‘Lawfare’ Architect Mark Pomerantz’s Former Firm, ‘Paul, Weiss,’ Settles with Trump; Will Donate $40 Million in Legal Work![]() Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, a law firm formerly associated with attorney Mark Pomerantz, who led a campaign to prosecute President Donald Trump, reached a major settlement with the president Thursday. Pomerantz is regarded as the “architect” of a major component of Democrats’ “lawfare” strategy, an effort to use — or abuse — the courts in both civil and criminal litigation against Trump to destroy his political prospects and wealth. Pomerantz’s most notorious contribution was when he resigned from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office, claiming that the DA was being too timid against Trump and publishing a book arguing for Trump to be prosecuted. Bragg had run for office vowing to prosecute Trump, but relented in the face of the evidence, until Pomerantz’s book and subsequent public pressure led him to file bizarre charges in the Stormy Daniels case. Bragg succeeded in convicting Trump on 34 felony counts in front of a Manhattan jury, but legal scholars — even those who oppose Trump — believe Bragg lacked authority to bring federal charges in a state court, especially when federal prosecutors declined to pursue them. Bragg did so to stretch the definition of New York’s statute of limitations, which had already expired on the misdemeanor charges of falsification of business records. Pomerantz invoked
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