Distguished Trial Lawyer Fah Gay (JD '86) to Addrs Class of 2020 - Northwtern Przker School of Law News

Contents:

• QUN UNLOADS ON FAH GAY: $100 MILLN FOR 'INGRATU' AND 'DECEPTN'
• QUN UNLOADS ON FAH GAY: $100 MILLN FOR 'INGRATU' AND 'DECEPTN'
• FAH GAY SAYS WOMEN NEED ‘ACTUAL POWER’ BIG LAW
• FAH GAY HAS A TOTALLY ZEN PERSPECTIVE ON THE JOHN QUN EMAIL
• JOHN QUN IS NOT HAPPY ABOUT SELENDY & GAY -- AND HE SENT THE ANGRY REPLY ALL TO PROVE IT
• FAH GAY
• FAH GAY HAS A TOTALLY ZEN PERSPECTIVE ON THE JOHN QUN EMAIL
• FAH GAY HAS A TOTALLY ZEN PERSPECTIVE ON THE JOHN QUN EMAIL
• AT SELENDY & GAY, ONE YEAR TELLS THE TALE OF A BIG LAW SPOFF
• DISTGUISHED TRIAL LAWYER FAH GAY (JD ’86) TO ADDRS CLASS OF 2020

QUN UNLOADS ON FAH GAY: $100 MILLN FOR 'INGRATU' AND 'DECEPTN'

Qun Unloads on Fah Gay: $100 Milln for 'Ingratu' and 'Deceptn' Fance Watchlists My Portfol Markets Optns: Hight Open Intert Optns: Hight Implied Volatily News Vios Yahoo Fance Pl Screeners Personal Fance High-yield savgs acunt rat Crypto Indtri Contact Us U. Markets close 3 hours 2 mutS&P 500 Dow 30 Nasdaq Rsell 2000 C Oil Gold Silver EUR/USD 10-Yr Bond GBP/USD USD/JPY B USD CMC Crypto 200 FTSE 100 Nikkei 225 Qun Unloads on Fah Gay: $100 Milln for 'Ingratu' and 'Deceptn'[ptn id="attachment_9316" align="alignnone" width="620"]John QunJohn Qun, Qun Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan[/ptn] How upset was John Qun, the managg partner of Qun Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, when partners Fah Gay and Philippe Selendy left this month to lnch their own firm? But a reply-all email that Qun sent Gay this week—rpondg to her farewell msage to the firm—spells out his feelgs more clearly.

" [ptn id="attachment_9156" align="alignright" width="245"]Fah Gay[/ptn] Qun also acced Gay of secretly plottg her parture for months, endg his msage wh a retort to a poem that Gay had ced her parture memo. " Gay, who formally lnched Selendy & Gay wh Selendy and other Qun Emanuel lawyers on Thursday, was not immediately available to ment.

QUN UNLOADS ON FAH GAY: $100 MILLN FOR 'INGRATU' AND 'DECEPTN'

" The email dt-up after the firm January announced that Gay, the former -chair of the firm's natnal trial practice, and Philippe Selendy, a star ligator and former head of Qun Emanuel’s securi and stctured fance group, would be leavg wh a group of lleagu to start their own law firm. Selendy and Gay remaed mostly quiet the prs afterward, before fally tailg their plans this week nnectn wh the formal lnch on Feb.

FAH GAY SAYS WOMEN NEED ‘ACTUAL POWER’ BIG LAW

15 of Selendy & Gay.

In an terview shortly before the lnch, Gay and Selendy told The Amerin Lawyer that their parture wasn't a matter of dissatisfactn wh Qun Emanuel. “It really has everythg to do wh wantg to be masters of our own fate, ” Gay said at the time.

When Fah Gay left her partnership at Qun Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan wh ne other partners 2018, the firm’s top dog memorably sgled her out for a lashg. In a leaked email, John Qun remd Gay that the firm “ma you a legal star, ” addg, “durg your time wh you were paid well over $100m—far more than you ever dreamed you uld earn.

FAH GAY HAS A TOTALLY ZEN PERSPECTIVE ON THE JOHN QUN EMAIL

”It was a Pygmaln moment but also a tribute of sorts to Gay’s star stat. Five years later, Eliza Dooltle and her firm Selendy Gay Elsberg seem to be gog gangbters. It’s also petg wh Big Law for talent, regularly payg above the gog rate of tablished her distctive Southern twang, Gay talked ankly about her outsi stat Big Law, scrappy ramakg methods, and unual extracurricular activi.

Fah Gay Courty: Selendy Gay Elsberg Your firm seems to be unually succsful on the women and diversy, about half of the equy is owned by women, and women lead practice groups. I say that as a Southerner and a gay woman. When I graduated om law school 1986, wasn’t ol to be a gay person.

JOHN QUN IS NOT HAPPY ABOUT SELENDY & GAY -- AND HE SENT THE ANGRY REPLY ALL TO PROVE IT

When Philippe Selendy and Fah Gay announced that they’d be leavg Qun Emanuel to start Selendy & Gay, ’s safe to say that John Qun didn’t take well.

And when Gay sent her parture memo to the firm, Qun replied to all wh a sthg rebe. Dpe beg on the receivg of Qun’s lashg out, Fah Gay seems to unrstand where Qun was g om.

FAH GAY

In an terview wh Jenna Greene Ligatn Daily, Gay addrs the email:. In other words, she unrstands why this move would provoke strong feelgs, but everyone’s movg on and there’s a big enough pie for Selendy & Gay and Qun Emanuel to both eat their fill.

In Depth wh Selendy and Gay on Their New Firm—and Leavg Qun Emanuel [Ligatn Daily].

FAH GAY HAS A TOTALLY ZEN PERSPECTIVE ON THE JOHN QUN EMAIL

Earlier: John Qun Still Isn’t Happy, But Now He’s Showg A Softer SiJohn Qun Is NOT Happy About Selendy & Gay — And He Sent The Angry Reply All To Prove ItBig-Name Departur From Qun Emanuel.

FAH GAY HAS A TOTALLY ZEN PERSPECTIVE ON THE JOHN QUN EMAIL

So when John Qun replied to Fah Gay’s parture memo wh some blunt honty, was a breath of h air. Fah Gay, until now the Co-Chair of Qun Emanuel’s Natnal Trial Practice group who is leavg Qun to start Selendy & Gay wh fellow Qun alum and Ligator of the Year Philippe Selendy, sent her parture memo at 8:50 p.

AT SELENDY & GAY, ONE YEAR TELLS THE TALE OF A BIG LAW SPOFF

When Philippe Selendy and Fah Gay announced they’d be leavg Qun Emanuel to start their own firm, John Qun wasn’t happy. His blisterg “reply all” to Fah Gay’s parture memo laid bare the sort of tratn that too often go unseen.

DISTGUISHED TRIAL LAWYER FAH GAY (JD ’86) TO ADDRS CLASS OF 2020

In another email to all sent yterday afternoon, Qun opened up about the warm fuzzi he feels when personnel ci not to jump ship to Selendy & Gay (full email transcribed here). Serly though, Qun Emanuel has a bounty of talent and while Qun would love to keep everybody, the firm isn’t gog to suffer if several employe make the move the Selendy & Gay. In a year we’ll be talkg about Qun Emanuel as an dtry giant and we’ll be talkg about Selendy & Gay as one of the hottt newer firms years.