Biglaw

Rudy Giuliani Cut Loose By Biglaw Firm 3 Years Ago... Why Is He Still Claiming To Work There?

Pro tip: update your resume especially after being publicly denounced.

By  
on

(Photo by Rob Kim/Getty)

Remember when Rudy Giuliani touted himself as a cybersecurity expert and then butt dialed a reporter? If only that was the most embarrassing recent story about his pants. Well, it turns out that his lack of tech savvy may run even deeper than a hypothetical operative’s ties to Ukrainian actors working with the Kremlin trying to pass along fake dirt on Joe Biden.

The erstwhile Trump attorney may be scrambling for cash and fending off a criminal probe about his we-don’t-really-call-it-“lobbying”-but-lobbying work, but you can’t keep a guy like him down! I mean, things might not be looking great for him, but he’s still got his old job… maybe?

A quick perusal of the former mayor’s bio at the eponymous Giuliani Security & Safety includes a curious detail:

Mr. Giuliani continues in his role as Chairman and CEO of Giuliani Partners LLC, a management consulting firm which he founded in 2002, as well as a Senior Advisor/Senior Chair of Firm Development at Greenberg Traurig, a law firm.

Meanwhile, Greenberg Traurig is the firm that not only cut him loose in 2018, but has repeatedly and publicly reminded the world of this fact ever since.

The firm and Mr. Giuliani parted ways in May 2018, he is neither a client nor an employee, nor affiliated in any way with the firm.

Sponsored

That was Greenberg Traurig’s statement earlier this year and doesn’t leave a lot of room for interpretation.

So either Giuliani is still knowingly misleading potential clients by publicly claiming to still work with a law firm that disavowed him like a captured IMF team over 3 years ago or the cybersecurity genius hasn’t bothered to update his website bio for years. The latter would seem hard to believe until one recalls that web experts have already weighed in on the atrocious levels of maintenance on his company website:

Mozilla Observatory, an online site-scanning service operated by the nonprofit company behind the Firefox web browser, rates Giuliani Security & Safety’s website an “F” for basic connection security, with a score of 0 out of 100. In a suite of 11 tests, the Giuliani Security & Safety site passes just 3, according to Mozilla.

Now that all those election suits have flamed out, this might be a good time to brush up on the website resume. And this assumes that Giuliani Security & Safety is even still in business. Google lists the company as permanently closed, while other sources say it’s still out there doing… something. Though it’s never been exactly clear what that something really is.

But someone is still paying the bills for this website and it’s still touting his connection to Greenberg Traurig, which is probably news to Greenberg Traurig.

Sponsored

UPDATE: And it was news to Greenberg Traurig, who provided the following statement:

We parted ways in May 2018 and anything implying otherwise is incorrect. We have no control or awareness of what he does on his own.

Greenberg Traurig Wants Absolutely Nothing To Do With Rudy Giuliani

HeadshotJoe Patrice is a senior editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer. Feel free to email any tips, questions, or comments. Follow him on Twitter if you’re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news. Joe also serves as a Managing Director at RPN Executive Search.

Topics

, , , ,