Jesse Choper Criticizes Firm’s Decision to Drop Defense of Marriage Case

San Francisco Chronicle, May 1, 2011 by Debra J. Saunders
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/04/30/INBL1J7NLK.DTL

In a statement, K&S Chairman Robert Hays had explained the firm’s decision to ditch the case as the result of “inadequate” vetting of the contract. UC Berkeley School of Law Professor Jesse Choper finds that troubling. “If they didn’t like the case, they shouldn’t have taken it,” Choper observed. But having taken the case, the firm had “a lawyer’s obligation” to stick with it.