Brad Karp, the powerful chairman of law firm Paul Weiss, has been pushed out of his leadership role after federal files revealed he used his influence to secure favors for his son, Cornellian David Karp ‘16. The emails show the elder Karp leaned on his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein to land David work with director Woody Allen while David was still an undergraduate and shortly after his graduation. The correspondence paints a picture of a chummy, years-long relationship that included fawning thank-you notes for dinner parties and requests for high-level networking. While David won video contests and was featured on Cornell’s social media during his time in Ithaca, his father was busy leveraging connections with a convicted sex offender to boost his son’s film career. The internal revolt at Paul Weiss marks a major fall for a man who once led the legal elite. Between his social ties to Epstein and his eventual capitulation to the Trump administration’s pressure, partners finally decided that Karp’s brand of power-brokering was no longer a fit for the firm’s future.