A complete abdication. Anyone familiar with the Big Law ecosphere will not be shocked.

In a world of Skaddens, be a WilmerHale or a Jenner & Block

The convicted felon has been destroying our government one program at a time! He is hurting us the people. We should be allowed to fight him back! I don’t know why our representatives aren’t fighting him back.

Cowards

skoden

Knee pad lawyers

Marc. Sue these attorneys for taking a bribe.

"How eager they are to be slaves" - Emperor Tiberius on the Roman Senate as (mis)quoted by Gore Vidal

This why people hate lawyers.

What a horrible sad roll over.

Wow. That's shocking surrender. What cowards.

Why did they fold?

Because to them, ethics are an annoying afterthought. They think that by doing this, they think they are buying the favor of Dear Leader who will make them the MAGA law firm forever more. In spite of their fancy ivy league degrees, they can't see what's right in front of them

FEAR

Absolute cowardice. What client would trust them to represent them free of political pressure. They bring shame one entire profession.

This was well considered by these firms' top members. Obviously they know they will get enough business from the corrupt Administration to keep them all wealthy.The fees will make it profitable to walk on their knees and hide their faces.They don't need to protect and defend those who are wronged.

Hitler's Germany 2.0, the American Edition.

Complete capitulation.

Extortion. And they allowed it.

Curious as I am not a lawyer….when these “agreements” are drawn, are they legally binding contracts? I get that this is “performance art”, but what are the legal ramifications should a firm , let’s say, decline to represent someone “referred” by the administration?

I don’t.

What kind of law firm is too scared to fight for justice?

Apparently Skadden 🤦‍♀️

$100 million. Why aren't these cowards fighting the extortion? They are north korea crazy.

Skadden should temporarily up their fees to $1,000,000 per hour and do 100 hours of pro bono work. If they want to do other pro bono for these organizations that’s their business.

How is this proactive? Trump is using extortion to make another high-powered law firm roll over and play dead! WTH is wrong with them? I hope their clients don't expect the firm to fight for them because they won't fight for themselves. Trump is the devil in disguise 🥸!

Exactly! This is extortion plain & simple!

WTF

In the Epstein report?

Unbelievable how these law firms are capitulating to a dictator

They can STILL adhere to DEI principles, they just can't CALL it that- in fact, it sounds like their intention is to do just that. I'm going to play along and act like their 100 million in probono work for the veterans that muskatell just fired is outrageous and an act of cowardice. grrr. 🐱

Copy of the actual e-mail sent to Skadden employees. It has #AltText, for those of us who need it. It reads like capitulation without any hidden meanings, especially the insistence that kowtowing is "complying with the law".

Gross. Gross. Yuck.

How can a law firm afford to provide 100M$ in pro bono services ?

What happened to integrity and credibility? They’re beholden to the mob boss.

I hope everyone quits. This is a disgrace

Skadden has been rotting from unbridled greed for the past 15 years.

Cowards.

Somebody typed this for him.🙄

Absolute insane and despicable. Cowards.

I'm screaming it every fucking day, Sister!

Appalling

So they could work for veterans who have an issue with the shameful treatment of veterans by trump’s govt?

I think it's to protect the arresters... when trump does Martial law.

I'm sure that the veterans Rump will call on tem to help will be Hegseth and others in his administration. The "antisemitism" he refers to will no doubt be the hammer he'll use against any who are against plans he has with Israel.

Got to get Mar a Lago Gaza

😂😂😂

This was nothing short of extortion. Why didn’t they sue the trump administration?????????

Because capitulation was easier.

Sure would've been cheaper than $100M to fight something clearly unconstitutional. If they thought they would lose, they must not be very effective attorneys.

WTF

Has Congress made DEI illegal? Did I miss something? EO's aren't law correct?

They (EOs) enforce the behavior of the executive office. That’s it. So basically the FTC/EEOC (who is the office that comes up when I google this) they’ll ignore it. So basically they’re seemingly stopping enforcement of it. Source: www.ftc.gov/policy-notic...

Precisely.

I hope this law firm loses all their clients. Who could trust this firm? trump, the oligarchs, the silent majority republicans in caucus seem to think it's ok to attack the law every chance they get. If the individual law firms won't take a stand for the constitution who will? Not the republicans.

Yikes! Where's the upside for them? This is cowardly and insane.

Money,darlin, money.

Weaklings

I wouldn't want Trump to own me.

What happens when this administration violates the Constitution and laws of this nation in a way that leads to the deaths of thousands? How much fascism will be too much fascism for them? Trump is taking legal actors off of the board so that the public will be left defenseless

They.Don’t.Care.

At some point they’ll have to. These law firms depend on corporations that depend on public consumption. If people aren’t able to consume or see them as complicit, their business dies. Making this deal is a short term fix but he won’t stop and they won’t be able to control him.

I hope they go out of business, cowards

Brand suicide. Even more that Tesla.

time to change the lyrics to the National Anthem "Home of the brave!!" yeah right.

Home of the depraved

Completely disgraceful. Thank you for continuing to fight! ✊🏻✊🏻

One word for this: TOOLS.

IMO, Skadden and Paul Weiss have now been colonized to be a part of by Stephen Miller's America First Legal where they want to eradicate the "radical left." Trump & Co are INVADING its own people but call it self-defense. They are the aggressors & claim to be victims. They lie and claim the truth.

Is Trump appointing himself to the pro bono committee so he can choose what they do? Will it be all retribution cases against Biden? This is unbelievable. And 100M$? This law firm has way too much money. Who is lining their pockets so well that they can be extorted by Trump 🤔

Chump change for them. They have $3.3B in annual revenue. And, while they won't write off the $100 for tax purposes, you can bet the expenses are going to be huge and contribute to their tax offset.

So depressing.

OBSCENE

What a complete testicular fortitude lacking biatch. May trigeminal neuralgia befall him and all like him.

J F C. This country is toast.

Is it in any way appropriate that the president of the United States is releasing details like this on a privately owned social media platform which he's the major shareholder of?

More 'political officers' stationed within private firms, to ensure loyalty to the King.

📌

“A man can’t ride your back unless it’s bent.” - Martin Luther King, Jr. (The only King we recognize in these United States.)

Well there is that other King And he is kind of a dark lord. His first name is Stephen.

I bet if a Skadden attorney were to try to assist an individual veteran in getting services from a decimated Veteran's Administration, they would be told that the agreement didn't mean they could actually help such veterans.

Yes you are probably correct.

I was thinking the same thing!

Why would you ever think of hiring craven lawyers who fold like a cheap suit at the hint of a threat?

I just threw up in my mouth a little.

Shameful!

Worse than the other one. Pathetic.

In case no one’s told you lately, thank you for continuing to fight & never backing down 👏

They should be ashamed.

What they should be, is out of business. I truly hope their clients are thinking hard about what it means for them to remain with this firm. I'm sure Jenner & Block or WilmerHale would love their business. If you work for Skadden and don't quit, well, you're a bit of a dick.

Absolutely. If you want a firm that's going to fight for you, Skadden ain't it

Agreed totally shameful

Read this to induce vomiting.

📌

I hope this is the beginning of the end for them.

#complicit #cowards #asskisser #capitulate

He and too many like him are traitors!

Caving one by one. Brutally chilling.

“Skadden affirms its commitment to merit-based hiring, promotion, and retention. Accordingly, the Firm will not engage in illegal DEl discrimination and preferences.”

Astonishing. After a lifetime of preparing for confronting a tyrant, so many of us turn out to be empty suits.

Skadden’s capitulation is so disappointing.

Disgraceful doesn't begin to describe this treachery....

Trump: “I’m abusing my power to extort you.” Skadden: “That seems bad, but lawyers are expensive these days, so… fine I guess? Here’s $100m please go away.

GOD GO FUCK OFF YOU COWARDS

Why I would never use a form that forgot the oath they took

DOESN'T SMELL GOOD.

This could of been positive history for them, shame something as fleeting as trump was final temptation 😕

Shameful. I hope their clients desert them and that their best lawyers resign.

So they can still engage in DEI practice, just not illegal ones...

One hopes they are losing clients by the lorry full.

Hear me out, it sounds crazy-I know. I think he is doing this and securing these law firms to fight good people like Marc Elias and others who will fight what is happening. W/out this blackmail, who will defend the likes of the Heritage Foundation, Elon, proud boys, etc?

As well as military who obey illegal orders.

I'm sure plenty would defend them, but not pro bono

That's the point, from Trump Towering debt who notoriously stiffs everyone. Even Giuliani couldn't pay his attorney fees, so without that pro bono, most wouldn't take them on. They chewed through the ones that would have from the 1st time around.

Sad! I pray to God that there will not be more of this!

Never surrender NEVER FORGET

Disgusting.

🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

Trump knows his cadre is all going down. Nothing is going as planned. He is lining up representation for his family and friends.

That's appalling

Well, I get you, but there's a lot if of double meaning phrases in there. They could technically keep doing what they're doing.

Disgraceful

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The short version is we care more about $$ than principles

#4 is disgusting

Cowards!

Wow. So they are worse that Paul Weiss

Each one gets worse. First 40 million in pro bono. And then 100 million. Guess you don’t want to be the last firm to settle. So completely and absolutely beyond nuts and terrifying

This is sick. Hitching your wagon to the losing horse? Or maybe they are one step ahead of us? In that, they are confident we the people will rise up and take the mofo out, so they don’t have to honor the contract. I am perhaps too generous, b/c damn they caved fast and far.

Law firms need to unify. They could ultimately pull the country out of this nightmare.

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This is why the oligarchy must die.

COWARDS! They are unworthy of their Bar cards. They are unworthy of their citizenship.

This is another excellent telltale sign of late stage capitalism's failure, foible and collapse. $100 million deal that can't be refused. Lawyers/liars are as potentially disgusting creatures as insurance companies, crypto bankers and tech butt buddies. C'mon Luigi, broaden the targets!

Isn't 47 the one weaponizing the justice system??

DEI is illegal according to 47

Sounds like fuckface was upset that all the grift money went to the attorneys last time around. Now he has hundreds of hours of legal work by top firms banked. Nobody will embarrass him by turning him down, no matter how egregious the offense.

Disgusting 🤮. More power to you Marc and team.

Ah, I'm old enough to remember Skadden rose to prominence for being aggressive. Just pathetic.

Shame! May they never get another client again.

I still don’t understand why in the world any of these firms are capitulating to wannabe king dickhead. To me, and I’m assuming to a lot of others, doing this would be the legal business kiss of death. If you can’t stand up for you, you’re definitely not gonna stand up for me. I just don’t get it.

I don’t understand a lot of things these days I guess. The biggest one I don’t get is how tRump and his ghouls are still consuming our oxygen, especially after the amount of needless suffering and death they’ve caused. They are a blight on this planet.

Listen to Scott Galloway on this. The richest people with the most power are folding because they see it as the easiest & cheapest way to deal with this. No balls, and no long term thinking.

Well put. All the firms fighting back should consider this an opportunity goldmine for pulling talent and clients away from the ones bending the knee jumping onto a sinking ship full of convicts.

Simple math. The billionaires funnel millions to law firms like Skadden and Paul Weiss. If they say now to Trump their only responses is how far down.

Short term gain for long term pain. The writing is on the wall that tRump will fail, and if they can’t see that they’re morons. He’s hemorrhaging supporters by the minute and he only had 31.87% to begin with going in. They’re putting their money on the wrong horse. Everything tRump touches dies.

100 million fucking dollars. I.. I don't even have words. Traitors and sellouts.

Skadden Sellout Statement Summary: Our law firm, being of dubious ethics and reprehensible character, hereby sell out the principles of the attorney oath to the bar. After all. it's better to get those benjamins to flout our lifestyle to lowlifes who can't afford to have us represent them.

👍🏼

WTSF

What craven assholes.

Why would they just cower before Trump? It is just plain blackmail/extortion.

There’s no good choice to be made here. But they took the worst one.

If I was a client, I would go elsewhere.

Craven

Sad. 😔

Ugh. A friend is an attorney there. I hope they move on.

They forgot to include 5. Please, Sir, may I have another?

Disgusting

A disgrace . It’s all about $$

Beyond pathetic- I’ve lost respect for all the law firms that have rolled over

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A client(s) of Perkins, Wilmer Hale, and Jenner are going to sue the sell out law firms, sooner than we might think because hiring, firing and promotion decisions are made constantly. This shame is all going to come out.

And @marcelias.bsky.social for his stance and continued fight!!

This is insane. And beyond cowardly.

Nobody is doing $100 million in pro bono work at Trump’s direction. He’s full of it.

Weaponization of the justice system: co-opting the language of true marginalized and disenfranchised group’s is bizarre. How they can write this stuff with a straight face is beyond incredible. We are living in the sunken place because i definitely need to GET OUT. Stop the gaslighting!

politically disenfranchised....

Skadden took it without lube.

🤮🤮🤮🤮

Disgraceful

So, these cavers are forced to end "DEI", while being forced to take on conservatives (pro bono), which IS fucking DEI. Like everything maga crybullies over, it's always to gain a completely one-sided advantage. This fascist regime will not last long, but our memories of the capitulators will.

Nothing like extortion working against a legal firm....Tells you all you need to know about how shitty that firm really is.

Most states require lawyers to sign an oath that specifically requires them to uphold the Constitution, amongst other ethical mandates. None require any lawyer to be subject to a king or a fascist authority. I take this as a declaration that they are not trustworthy. cdn.ymaws.com/www.inbar.or...

If we lose the law firms, we’re done.

This law firm has disgraced itself! They will never fight for us because Trump will direct them not to!

Spineless and disgraceful. I hope they go bankrupt.

Well. It sucks. I guess we will see what this really means but what does the term of trump and “beyond” mean? Beyond trump’s term?and with whom is this agreement with? How is it binding? And what illegal dei practices? What dei practices are illegal? Who will be making sure it all happens???

What have they even agreed upon? This "agreement" is filled with so many latent ambiguities that it's difficult to believe any competent lawyers were involved in drafting it.

They agreed to defend fascism 🤷‍♀️

They are being too smart by half. They are so smart.

I hope any client they currently have realizes they better not do anything to make Trump mad. I would leave now. Any attorney who has integrity should leave this firm!

Disgusting

OMG

Don’t hire firms to fight for you if they can’t even fight for themselves!

Sound legal advice!

What did they do to warrant such an ass kissing here. lol Do they really think this will satisfy the big orange Cheeto and the Ketamine King.

Apparently the extortion is because Skadden was assisting in a lawsuit against Dinesh D’Souza. abovethelaw.com/2025/03/is-s...

"Judge Bates calls Trump's EO 'disturbing' and 'troubling,' especially attack on pro bono practice," legal expert Adam Klasfeld, Just Security fellow. I can see the deals cut by Cheeto will be void when a clear decision is made by the courts.

how about forcing the Christian Nationalist organizations to take progressive and liberal cases?! fair is fair

Who wants to hire a law firm to fight for them, if they won’t even fight for themselves? The flop might work on a basketball court sometimes, but not so great in litigation.

The attorneys in these firms have a once in a lifetime chance to do the funniest thing... One already has...

"Accordingly, the Firm will not engage in illegal DEl discrimination and preferences." - Adios Schmucks!

What is keeping lawyers from quitting? Besides a payday? Looks like they will just be working for Trump for free… for as long as he wants…

#2 “providing services to individuals” you don’t suspect he’s going to expect them to represent J6 Insurrectionist? Seems like it could be anyone he wants them to represent.

Ugh.

So sad, so disgusting. What happened to "Free Enterprise"?

Trump’s gonna need those free legal services soon.

Wow.

What the hell were they thinking? Sad to see.

Cowards

OMG! The only ones weaponizing the government is this lawless regime. Think about it…

It's always projection when the trump talks about the weaponization of government.

Why would you hire a law firm that won't defend itself?

Yes! Do they think their lawyers are too crappy to win the case? Do they want to tell opposing lawyers that they can be bought for the right price? I hope both capitulating firms are cooked.

Too bad Alina Habba has a gig, she’d fit right in.

Yeah. But she can feel comforted in knowing she'll have a landing spot if her current gig ever expires.🙄😡🤮

Exactly!

Definitely 💯 agree with you on this one. Executive order is not truly a law. They have capitulated to the dictator.

Why? Simple… to get into ‘good graces’ of the orange maggot… These companies will see an influx of even more shady clientele… We live during dangerous times…

Just shameful. They could have sued as the others did but instead they caved to a bully and tyrant. Who would hire them in a lawsuit against this federal government? If this snowballs, average Americans could wind up with little opportunity to hire legal representation against gov’t illegal action.

Abhorrent

JFC...

This makes me physically ill. I worked for some big NY law firms in the 1980s. I would have quit on the spot rather than participate in this kind of toadying to fascism.

Work for a mid-sized firm and happier by the day not to have chased big law nonsense.

wound up working for a university for the last 15 years of my career, that was the way to go

Work for local government and happier still. I know a lot of people who went to work for firms like Skadden. They endured long enough to pay down their student loans then got the hell out of there.

Yup. Local government does seem like a good option in a blue state, but probably lots of competition for jobs after the federal firings.

Exactly. These stories are just three counties in Maryland that had huge crowds for job fairs for feds. wtop.com/prince-georg... wjla.com/news/local/m... www.capitalgazette.com/2025/03/21/l...

Disgusting. 🤮

This firm should henceforth be known as CRAVEN Arps

They are pretty well known as Skadden Cash. One of the firms most about the money. 3.3 B in 2023.

Yeah—Continuation of a trend…

Also, note this:

Oh...explains a lot!!

Ah. They were already rotten through the core. That explains a lot.

For anyone with visual impairment, like me, the source appears to be Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skadden... Sources cited for the claim: - archive.md/pcFOl - archive.md/LRg0r - archive.md/6x3yi - archive.md/N4AGX - archive.md/JEIMc - archive.md/vSHJZ - archive.md/fgqYE - archive.md/3B5de

That WAS where I saw it originally. I did make sure there were legitimate articles that backed it up before I posted this! 😅

Oh, I don't doubt that. ☺️ Just sometimes it's hard to get the software to navigate some of those footnote things because they can have errors on Wikipedia. Not on you - it's just a risk with having publicly editable pages. One thing hidden in the citation code and the whole thing can go haywire.

Also, for anyone wanting to read those archived links, change the "md" before the "/" to "ph" I don't know why the archive.today page is having an issue with that one extension atm.

- archive.md/I3tuk - archive.md/ntpPb - archive.md/kfeJu

Wow.

@marcelias.bsky.social any idea what kind of pro bono they will be doing? Totally disgraceful that they have caved.

Undercutting democracy and good morals by the look of it. Free of charge for their orange stained master. Absolute cowards.

They should break their "settlement " with trump.

This is totally disgusting.

Spineless Nazi cucks, all.

🇺🇸🏛️⚖️ 😒 “Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.” ~ #JuliusCeasar ✍🏻 #Cowards #Skadden #tRUmp

First they sell their souls as they bend a knee.

😒 And then they 🤬 do “this”👇🏻

Say good bye to law and order

Wtf does this orange maniac have on these people, dear God!!!!

Sickening!

This is some big govt crap. The govt now tells folks best hiring practices? How does this work with international companies?

Seems more like alignment than capitulation

This is straight extortion.

🤦🏻‍♀️📌

I am reluctant to raise this but, given Trump's inclination to litigation, I can't imagine what Skadden's malpractice carrier is going to charge to cover any claims that might stem from the pro bono services provided under this settlement.

A very good point. This is a Trojan horse of a concession. Yikes.

At a minimum, I would have carved the amount of the additional malpractice coverage from the $100M pro bono.

Might even out.

That seems extremely prudent. Why are these firms giving away the shop? Are they being personally threatened? I can’t think of any other reason for these choices.

🤷‍♀️ I haven't a clue but $100M is a LOT of money for a weak sauce claim.

Perhaps the regime has found a more profitable use for the Epstein list

Fuckers.

Nice, Skadden. Totally bended over. 🤦‍♀️

Fucking cowards

million in probono ? wow

Disgraceful is one word. These all fit - from our friends at Merriam-Webster:

I was a personel associate for major employment agency back in the 80s and 90s Skadden was one of my clients , a major player back then during the securities takeovers rampant back then...my how the mighty have fallen.....they have destroyed their reputation forever more...

They didn't fall. They jumped from the rooftop of Tr*mp Tower.

Maybe pushed?

This is trumps defenestration tactic

Totally disgraceful.

Boycott Skadden Arps

No Skansen you capitulated like miserable cowards. You disgraced your profession and let down your country.

Spellcheck drives me crazy. I typed Skadden.

It's sneaky and quick!

Money and greed rule our country, Marc. Moral values do not.

These pathetic people don’t surprise me. I write them off as no longer being welcome by me in my country. When we get through this, the names of the companies & people who enabled, cooperated or capitulated will be a stain on history & will never recover. Their descendants will detest them.

Shame on them

It's just disgusting! These law firms are the pillars of Democracy crumbling before our eyes. Shame on you Skadden.

Skadden=disgusting pigs

Fuck that

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So DEI is just illegal now? When did that become law? Does he mean justice for all or justice for him? Still a massive violation of 1A.

Only white radicalised men count.