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The ironic fact is that, by seeking to buy near-term protection from a vengeful president, the law firms actually have ...
We are former attorneys of the law firm Skadden, Arps; one of us recently resigned a position over Skadden’s capitulation to a threatened executive order.
At least a third of the Am Law 100 has been involved in the ongoing battle with the Trump administration, though that number could change by the day.
The President has two goals: to seek revenge and to intimidate lawyers challenging his agenda. Is a top firm’s deal with him ...
The legal profession is not resisting authoritarianism. It is formatting it. Coaching it. Polishing it for public consumption ...
The Trump administration on Wednesday issued an executive order singling out another law firm and warned that five more firms ...
The leaders of the Big Law firms that have struck deals with U.S. President Donald Trump believe they have found safe harbor from the punishments the President is meting out to law firms that have ...
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Trump’s War on Big Law
The firms in the president’s crosshairs must decide: cave to save their profits-per-partner or take up a tough fight?
de la Merced Lauren Hirsch and Edmund Lee President Trump has opened a new front in his attack on Big Law. On Tuesday, he signed an executive order that targeted Jenner & Block, a major white-shoe ...
But big law firms—especially those now under attack by the Trump administration—do crucial work, representing nonprofits and individual clients who face major legal consequences, both civil ...
Paul Weiss partners are “fabulously well-paid” and hard to poach, says a big-law bigwig who has tried. Partners might have stomached a bit less profit if rallied. Taking on the White House ...