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[–] tal@lemmy.today 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Prestigious lawyers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Law_School

Harvard Law School (HLS) is the law school of Harvard University, a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1817, Harvard Law School is the oldest law school in continuous operation in the United States.

Each class in the three-year JD program has approximately 560 students, which is among the largest of the top 150 ranked law schools in the United States.[6] The first-year class is broken into seven sections of approximately 80 students, who take most first-year classes together. Aside from the JD program, Harvard also awards both LLM and SJD degrees.

HLS is home to the world's largest academic law library.[7][8] The school has an estimated 115 full-time faculty members.[3] According to Harvard Law's 2020 ABA-required disclosures, 99% of 2019 graduates passed the bar exam.[9][10][11] The school's graduates accounted for more than one-quarter of all Supreme Court clerks between 2000 and 2010, more than any other law school in the United States.[12]

And a large war chest:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_University_endowment

The Harvard University endowment, valued at $50.7 billion as of June 30, 2023,[1] is the largest academic endowment in the world.[2][3] Its value increased by over 10 billion dollars in fiscal year 2021, ending the year with its largest sum in history.

[–] twistypencil@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

FYI, that endowment is about 10 bill more, but it's mostly earmarked, and not just sitting there available to deploy in a legal battle

[–] tal@lemmy.today 6 points 1 week ago

I'm thinking less that they'd spend billions of dollars on legal fees and more that makes the institution less-vulnerable to having federal funding cut.

[–] JollyBrancher@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

US political influence, investment worth, and "money" about to FAFO about cold hard cash money and true international reputation ?

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week ago

Threaten the students, and the universities join right in. Threaten their money, though...