US lawyers no longer want to work for Russian oligarchs, especially those who want their...

Let them hire lawyers in their own country.

LTC Eugene Chu
..."US lawyers no longer want to work for sanctioned Russian oligarchs, the New York Post reported.

Like other industries, law firms want to distance themselves from those targeted by Western sanctions.

"Nobody is going near these cases," a New York litigator who previously worked with oligarchs told the Post.

Wealthy Russian oligarchs looking for US lawyers to try to overturn their sanctions may have a tough time.

Lawyers in the US are allowed to work for sanctioned people – but many no longer want to, with one litigator calling the cases "radioactive," according to a report by the New York Post.

The West has imposed heavy sanctions on Russia in an attempt to pressure President Vladimir Putin to end the invasion of Ukraine. As well as targeting banks, the West has sanctioned Russian elites and oligarchs, freezing their assets and in some cases limiting travel. Individuals hit by US sanctions include USM Holdings founder Alisher Usmanov, Rosneft CEO Igor Ivanovich Sechin, and top figures in Russia's banking and finance sector.

These oligarchs have "too much at stake and too much to lose" to not contest the sanctions, a person with knowledge of the situation told the Post. But to overturn US sanctions, oligarchs have to take the Office of Foreign Assets Control to federal court, the Post reported."...

And yet they'll work for the most despicable drug lords, murderers, rapists, et al under the banner of everyone deserves fair representation in court. Are Russian oligarchs that bad or are the lawyers merely afraid of bad press?