John Qun Is NOT Happy About Selendy & Gay - And He Sent The Angry Reply All To Prove It - Above the Law

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.

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FAH GAY SAYS WOMEN NEED ‘ACTUAL POWER’ BIG LAW

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. ”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 HAS A TOTALLY ZEN PERSPECTIVE ON THE JOHN QUN EMAIL

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.

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

When I graduated om law school 1986, wasn’t ol to be a gay person. 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. In an terview wh Jenna Greene Ligatn Daily, Gay addrs the email:.

FAH GAY

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].

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.

So when John Qun replied to Fah Gay’s parture memo wh some blunt honty, was a breath of h air.

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

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.

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. 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.

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

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. Earlier: John Qun Is NOT Happy About Selendy & Gay — And He Sent The Angry Reply All To Prove ItBig-Name Departur From Qun Emanuel.

John Qun is gog to war wh Selendy & Gay. Maybe we should have expected — after all, the name partner did break wh all ctoms and norms when he put Fah Gay on blast wh an all-firm email when she announced she was leavg the firm.

Now word that Qun Emanuel has iated arbratn proceedgs agast Selendy & Gay seekg to enforce a “forfeure-for-petn” provisn the partnership agreement, said to entle Qun to 10 percent of any legal fe om clients the ex-Qun attorneys brought to the new firm for a perd of 18 months.

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

That’s bee Selendy & Gay isn’t takg lyg down. The petn also not that, to the bt knowledge of any of the Selendy & Gay attorneys, this is the first time the firm has sought to enforce that provisn of the partnership agreement.

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

“New York’s ethil l strictly forbid any agreement that rtricts the right of a lawyer to practice after termatn of the relatnship created by that agreement, ” the Selendy & Gay lawyers wrote the petn. As reported by, Qun Emanuel’s cisn to go after Selendy & Gay me after the firm allegedly sought assuranc the new firm wouldn’t be takg senr associat wh them. The Selendy & Gay lawyers further allege that after they left Qun Emanuel, Qun sought assuranc that they would not “poach” top associat om their former firm, exchange for an agreement that Qun Emanuel would not seek to enforce the forfeure-for-petn provisn.

Selendy & Gay refed to sign onto any anti-poachg agreement, believg that, too, would n afoul of New York ethics l. Selendy & Gay’s argument about legal ethics fely has some teeth to , not Law360:. [Jefey Lowe, head of partner recg at Major Ldsey & Ai] noted that, an active lateral market, the scuffle between Qun Emanuel and Selendy & Gay attorneys illtrat how the practice of vokg provisns and protectns agreements to stanch the flow of talent n turn out to be a “double-edged sword.

Read the full petn filed by Selendy & Gay below.