Here is an up to date list of Big Law collaborators along with how much in free legal services they have pledged to Trump's causes. Paul Weiss 40M Cadwalader 100M Milbank 100M Skadden Arps 100M Willkie Farr 100M A&O Shearman 125M Kirkland & Ellis 125M Latham & Watkins 125M Simpson Thacher 125M
Almost 600 years ago, Shakespeare warned us about people like Trump ("Jack Cade") and Bondi ("Dick the Butcher") in Henry VI, Part II.
Such pussies.
Fascists
WOW!!
Laughable.
Hey Marc. If you’re hiring , DM me.
Can anyone supply the names of the law firms who didn’t/won’t kiss Trump’s ass and have the integrity to say “I love democracy & will put my life on the line to defend it like 420,000 dead American hero’s did in WWII”. Or is it just a fact that we’re suckers & our Amer. dream is over?
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Anna Bower has a thread: bsky.app/profile/anna...
Just think if these law firms had any integrity or love for our democracy, how great they would be. But NO, they bent the knee & kissed the ass of a want to be authoritarian fascist. So, fuck America, fuck democracy, they need their gold above all. No leaders there, just selfish sycophants.
which firms have resisted or is there one? would we know?
Many more resistor firms Than I expected per the spreadsheet. Makes the firms that caved look even worse IMHO.
bsky.app/profile/anna...
@marcelias.bsky.social will never bend the knee. Check out their record!
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Excellent.
Disgraced from now on
Fuck Idaho
Wow! That's really going to drive up our inflation numbers.
He's the mob walking down Main st. not so subtly threatening every shop owner unless they pay for protection. Most cave but the ones that don't have suspicious fires and/or explosions. It's so obvious a shakedown that surely even THIS Supreme Court can see it.
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Over a billion dollars worth of legal fees? WTF? Is this legal, has any president ever done this?
Easy answer - of course not.
Take note of the corrupt/supplicant law firms. Bending over to the cult.
Collaborators.
Excuse me. I spelled it wrong. Colaborateurs.
Compromised
Cowardly bastards.
Traitors all
These firms will be used against US civilians. They know it, and they've agreed to it.
They are spineless cowards.
Cowards
#twunts
Cowards ! This is how Hitler started-take care of all the lawyers first the destroy the free media! These are supposedly educated people and they know if they all rebuff this together he can be stopped! Cowards!
Systemic failure seems a common theme. A similar issue seems to exist with the media getting hung up on the diversions and not reporting the critical.
OMG DISGUSTING!!!KARMA IS REAL 💯 I would not want to be anyone of those Law Firm Partners or any attorney who would continue to work for collaborators in the destruction of American democracy.🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸I would quit immediately to save my integrity, my credibility, my peace of mind AND keep my karma clear.💯
FUCKING NATSIS TRAITORS THERE IS NO OTHER EXPLANATION
Almost a billion dollars of free legal support for Trump…I just cannot fathom why this is happening and how anyone who supports the rule of law thinks that bribery is ok…of all the capitulations this shows how deeply broken our country is
This level of greed is unfathomable….
It isn't greed. It is a well laid out plan to overthrow the Constitution.
I do not grasp the WHY? What are we missing?
Let interns do the work. It’s what these firms do anyway when doing pro bono billing.
National Germany, here we come .
LOSERS
Trump has cases? Such as?
Obeying in advance. Shameful and cowardly. If a well-resourced big law firm won't even stand up for themselves, and won't fight Trump's authoritarianism and corrupt extortion, why would anyone needing a lawyer think those firms would stand up and fight for them?
Now imagine the pressure to lie in court for the administration when it isn't just a federal-pay job on the line but your partnership.
Curious - if Perkins Coie is successful in their lawsuit against Trump’s EO & it’s found to be unconstitutional & illegal, does that nullify the agreements these firms made?
I hope not. They willingly sold their souls to an asshole, then that's on them. The law firm that fights and wins, wins for itself. I'd like these big firms that agreed to suck #OrangeDick go bye-bye. They were clearly thieves to begin with so no loss to society.
pay to play
SHAMEFUL
Like a billion dollars, all for little hands Donny. What a bunch of cowards.
Who’d of thought that the legal profession was so cowardly to sell out principles so quickly!
me. I did.
Dude if they weren't like that, Trump would have gone to prison in the 1980s.
Our experience with law firms, they’re a bunch of crooks. Most of Congress are lawyers.
Capitalism's tenet of "all that matters is the bottom line" will destroy us.
FFS
They’re all spineless scum
What the actual fuck. I want to see names & faces of attorneys who choose to stay with those firms and who are partaking in sucking Trump's dick
Doug Emhoff works at one of those firms. April 11, 2025: “Doug Emhoff is facing pressure to resign after his new law firm, Willkie Farr & Gallagher, cut a deal with the Trump administration earlier this month to scrap diversity programs and offer free legal services to Trump-approved causes.”
this is the one criticism I think is fair. his ass needs to resign from that firm immediately.
This will be an issue for Kamala if she ever wants to run for anything again. This recovering litigator thinks this is such a bad look and a breach of ethics and professional responsibilities for all involved.
Agree.
Criminal. But also a reason for impeachment if it’s is used for personal gain
Disgusting
Absolute disgrace.
No profiles in courage there.
Gonna need much more to pay their way out of the hell they've bought their way into.
I hope all of them pull the rug out from under Trump and default on their deal. Trump does it, why can’t the big law firms?
Art of the deal he would call it
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Pitiful
A true list of shame. 🤮🤮
I am going to keep posting this!! Maybe this should make it's way over to those firms Complicity in the Perversion of Justice: The Role of Lawyers in Eroding the Rule of Law in the Third Reich commons.stmarytx.edu/cgi/viewcont...
Shared on Facebook, thank you.
Disgraceful
It’s unfathomable that these firms would cave so easily.
They’ll all forever be stained w/ the mark of Trump!
Traitors to their countrymen, The Constitution, and completely law & order corrupt.
Sick
Just gutted that Neal’s firm capitulated. Why?
🤮🤮🤮 Never hire or use their law services. They have soiled themselves.
You know the way the law reads if you are on welfare you have to report services provided free as an income or asset. But I guess Trump gets freebies.
Authoritarian collaborators. Name them, shame them, turn on the light.
Cowards!!! Hope they lose all their business.
Thats alotta chedda.
They should raise their rates for Trump work to $1M per hour…anyway they are spineless
I *would* like to be a Veteran with a reemployment gripe ATM...
Sycophants refusing to stand up for what is right and bending the knee to a orange buffoon who should be impeached for crimes against America
Shame!
Why are they doing this????
Imagine if there was a list of known clients of these firms that the public could use to persuade these clients to drop these firms as legal counsel.
Have these numbers ever been verified? The firms haven't disavowed, whicth is cowardly for sure, but is this even true, or is it a "sure, Jan" situation?
Yeah, Neal Katyal, Millbank partner, frequent contributor on MSNBC. How does this play?
The criminal is making sure none of the firms can litigate against him after he is out of office for past crimes and future crimes. It's all disgusting and shame on these firms. They are cowards. No respect for them and it's apparent we are losing the judicial branch to the cult.
It all depends on who these firms are representing, i.e. who is the client. Without seeing the Agreement we don’t know. But the client is likely one of the parts of our government, such as the DOJ. Unless the client is Trump personally, these firms could represent the US in lawsuits AGAINST Trump.
Define causes? Destroying America, Social services for the most vulnerable Americans? Voting just like drive has rules, laws, & Consequences,
Pretty much those to start with.
Fucking embarrassing. They could’ve stood together on this but nope. Just chuck their reputations out the window and hope no one notices
This is absolutely insane and sickening. WTF???
If they have this much spare change, they’ve been overbilling their clients for decades.
I wonder if this could be considered bribery under extraterritorial ABAC rules. In which case many foreign companies and governments cannot hire these firms.
But what’s more they will not represent Trumps victims. He’s captured the legal profession and denied representation to anyone he doesn’t like.
I always imagined if anyone could put their metaphorical dick on the table and call Trump “a little bitch” it’d be law firms, railroad owners, and CEOs of shipping companies. Excluding the obvious like elected politicians. What’s the point of money & power if you don’t use it to defend urself?
I grew up during the Civil Rights era. I truly believed integrity was at the core of American values & would always triumph in the end. I still believe this overall, but I never expected blatant craven weakness before an actual convicted felon and by attorneys, no less. I’m physically sick over it.
Love this
Watch them do minimal work for that.
What are they going to do for trumpf. Something awful is coming
WHY??? What is wrong with all these people, sucking up to Trump???
This is heart breaking.
What percentage of big DC law firms do they represent?
Cowards!
What sort of bs will they be doing for Trump? Are they going to try and defend his illegal acts?
Good fvcking grief
Shame on these law firms. They are complicit in the unprecedented corruption and lies of a narcissist President determined to destroy the lawful institutions of the United States. Trump will impoverish the average American while the ultra rich become wealthier at the expense of the country.
Shameful. Dollars over duty; concession over courage; ease over ethics.
May these companies lose more than that because clients can no longer trust them. I know I’d never trust a law firm to fight for me that could not even fight for itself.
The most subversive thing to do would be to accept the cases and then subtly tank them. it will be clear by the end that the firm has both a 'real' track record and a 'Trump pro bono' track record, so their rep won't end up getting hurt.
The reason law firms are capitulating is because clients and partners are leaving or threatening to leave them, which is what happens when the President issues an EO that, if enforced, would make it practically impossible for your firm to practice federal law.
They will no longer be practicing law due to the capitulation. They will be practicing discrimination.
And we all know they couldn’t survive. They have the capital to outlast Trump. They choose not to.
These firms do not have the capital to outlast Trump. If they unified they could fight him collectively, but they can’t outlast him if he successfully makes it impossible for them to do business while other firms are waiting in the wings to steal clients and lawyers.
Guarantee they have enough equity. They could do no business for 4 years and survive. But yes, they absolutely should fight. It’s cowardice at every level.
I seriously doubt they do, and I suspect I understand their business model better than you. Law firms don’t hold huge cash reserves - they pay out profits to their partners. And even access to financing will be more difficult with these EOs hanging over their heads.
Then the equity is with the partners. Same concept.
They’re limited partnerships - partners aren’t obligated to kick in to fund the firm’s operations, and they can take their money and their clients and go to another firm whenever they want. So could individual partners last 4 years without pay? Some could. But their firms couldn’t.
Gotcha. Thanks for explaining. You obviously know more than I.
I only know about Biglaw because I was in it for a long time!
Lawyers like college professors are for the most part only interested in their careers and the money or status it brings. They talk a good game but a little pressure and they come up with all manner of excuses to comply.
Marc Elias on the other hand is a hero
An honorable law firm would sue to contest an EO to keep them out of Federal courts.
But doesn't this give Trump carte blanche for choosing who they can't represent as well?
That’s where I’d expect this to end up, but it’s rational for a law firm to decide they’d rather risk losing a few clients that Trump doesn’t like than losing most of their clients to competitors who have capitulated. I’m not saying it’s right, just that it’s a financially rational choice.
it's a rational choice if the extortion were from a rational actor who cared about maintaining relationships. but they made these "deals" with trump. lol
why yes, yes it does.
Are clients and partners threatening to leave them or is that just what they are afraid of? It’s just so pathetic to see law firms allowing themselves to be extorted. Land of the free and home of the brave my ass.
The chairman of Paul Weiss said that, before they settled with Trump, competitors (Cravath and others) were poaching clients based on the EO. And it makes sense that clients would leave! Business clients generally use lawyers to reduce risks. Engaging a targeted law firm increases their risks.
I hope to look forward to reading future books about the cowardice of those partners and their complicity w/ a fascist administration that blatantly undermines the rule of law.
There is no excuse. They are complying in advance…for money. 💰 These #BigLaw firms don’t want to lose clients? My dad went to Europe at 18 years old to fight fascism on another continent. He lost just about every friend he had in WWll. NO ONE IS ASKING LAW FIRMS TO DO THAT ARE THEY?
Please share!The rich have declared class war and we must respond in kind!Our greatest power has ALWAYS been that we're the caretakers of the machines.Slow production Waste their money! One giant day of insurance claims! Make this happen! Make fascism unprofitable with workplace disruption!
We are just asking them to help protect our democracy and they can’t even do that?
and so what?? then what? they go to a firm who sucks Trump off? A firm that will throw them and their entire case under the bus if Trump doesn't like it? Fuck that happy horseshit. All they needed to do was stand together. But they didn't because they're fucking cowards. fuck 'em all.
“Fuck that happy horseshit” is a phrase I will use!
I learned it from my dad 😆
Another one I’ve heard and used is “what in the history of fuck?”
ooo that's a new one for me
Use it!
Agreed. The law is not their priority. 'Nuff said.
They have phone numbers. Call and ask how they like working for nazi collaborators www.paulweiss.com/contact-us www.milbankworks.com/contact www.willkie.com/contact-us Call skadden +12127353000
Columbia capitulated and Trump kept escalating anyhow, now wanting a consent decree so the feds can directly run the university. Universities that told Trump to fuck off are doing much better. No reason to think it won't be the trajectory for these law firms.
Which universities told Trump to fuck off? It’s way too early to call winners and losers there. Trump’s attacks on academia are only getting underway. Harvard, Cornell, Brown and Northwestern are all facing massive fed funding cuts on the basis of pretextual civil rights investigations.
And with the canceling of student visas, unis be suffering. Watch for Golf to suddenly become the sports recruiting tool.
This is an imaginary reason.
So what’s your theory? Why are firms capitulating? Including firms with strong ties to the Democratic Party like Paul Weiss and Simpson Thacher? Are they all just fascists deep down?
Because they are weak dorks.
Talk about an “imaginary reason.”
They won't be practicing private sector law for me as a result, so 🤷♂️
If you were a Fortune 500 that might move their needle. But you’d probably have to bring a lot of your Fortune 500 friends along to move it enough. Unfortunately, major clients clearly aren’t backing firms against Trump.
I work at a Fortune 50 and have discretion to choose my outside counsel 🤷♂️ I'm certainly not going to move the needle myself but surely others are making similar decisions.
Question is whether more clients (by revenue) choose to end relationships with law firms that capitulate or with law firms that fight. I suspect many clients would rather avoid taking on the risk of using a firm that’s in direct conflict with this administration than to stick with them on principle.
I doubt many will move existing matters or make a show of breaking off a relationship (either direction) but these decisions might play a role in placing new matters (either direction).
Who wants to hire an attorney who will sell clients out whenever the extortionist says so?
Maybe fight the order.
Fighting doesn’t change the fact that your clients won’t want to, e.g., start a multi-year litigation or corporate reorganization with you if they know there’s a real risk you’ll lose your ability to practice law if you lose this fight. And your partners are going to leave with their clients.
Ok, but some other law firms seem to disagree with this capitulation approach.
And they should be applauded and supported! But most targeted firms didn’t do that, which tells me that the risks of fighting are very real.
That makes sense. This is one of those issues that sounds bad until you look at the practical reasons underlying the decision.
Don’t get me wrong, I think it is bad. It might make business sense, but not moral sense. I wish the firms had coordinated to resist. Resistance needs to be a whole-of-society effort, otherwise they pick us off piece by piece.
The company may fold but the douchebags in charge will be just fine
Seriously. If I'm after an attorney, I need a bulldog, not a pussy... cat.
Why are they doing this?! Do they not care about fascism? Do they not know how it ends?
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How awful.
This doesn't really surprise me. Based on my experience with corporate lawyers, they prefer to avoid litigation. They are risk averse and don't like the idea of taking a stand, doing the right thing and then defending their actions in court. They don't play to win. They avoid the chance of losing.
Marc - you realize, do you not, that Trump is going to enlist these firms to fight the lawsuits you have filed?
So deeply troubling that Trump is doing this and even worse, these law firms are capitulating. Cowards!
What’s he going to do that he needs all this “free” legal advice for? And that his high profile “enemies” who need good lawyers won’t have access to?
Overturning elections for one. Like 2026 midterms to start.
Big Law caving into an illegal protection racket. These are dark days.
What type of shitty corporations should continue doing business with these weak F’ing law firms?
We really need a 😡 button on bluesky in addition to the ❤️. The greed that drives these firms is despicable.
COWARDS AND IF THEY COULDN'T DEFEND THEMSELVES WHAT KIND OF LAWYERS ARE THEY!!!
Why does someone who's using the DOJ as their personal law firm need $1 billion in legal services? Is this just to have all the big law firms restricted from suing the federal goverment by conflict of interest policies?
Partners to these firms can have a certain amount of pro bono hours that go to their bonuses. When this administration takes up these budgeted hours it removes the opportunity for people who can’t afford these high power attorneys. Basically poor or working class people
Yes, and to make it harder for other anti-trump plaintifs to get representation.
Conflict of interest. They can't defend.
They have phone numbers. Call and ask how they like working for nazi collaborators www.paulweiss.com/contact-us www.milbankworks.com/contact www.willkie.com/contact-us Call skadden +12127353000
Extortion payments.
So the ransom numbers are increasing. At what point do they get too high? To the average American $100M in pro bono services is an unfathomable amount.
Serious question, can lawyers from these firms break off to start smaller ones that can be used to sue Trump and his regime?
Disgusting 🤮
Thinking that, since there is likely no contract, but rather a memorandum of agreement formalizing these arrangements, that most firms will bill out at 1 or 2 million an hour, and cut their losses.
The Vichy Lawyers
I see now clearly how Nazi Germany came about…
Just as with Hitler, the economic right feared the economic center enough to empower a despot. Fuck a Franz Von Papen.
In Germany companies still have to declare in their annual reports whether they profited from the Holocaust. History is long and will catch up with these traitors.
This is homegrown and happening at breakneck speed.
They have phone numbers. Call and ask how they like working for nazi collaborators www.paulweiss.com/contact-us www.milbankworks.com/contact www.willkie.com/contact-us Call skadden +12127353000
I think writing letters might be more powerful.
Then you should definitely do that ❤️
Already on it. Hope you weren't being snarky.
Lol i was not. I am fully supportive of people writing letters
So crazy and sad all at the same time.
Can they now throw the cases?
I read that if you bend the knee that'll break your leg next! There'll be no end to the thuggishness!
*Screenshot* Thank you.
Good God, Trump is running a protection racket like any good mobster. What are these “causes”? Do these firms know what they’ve agreed to?
can't wait for these white shoe law firms in court having to represent the likes of Lara Loomer - 😜😂. Building their own coffins.
Well said! U nailed it!
Of course. But money is all that matters.
What's more ridiculous is "after the fact" they collectively haven't sued Trump / these contracts claiming they were "signed" under duress. By the time these see the light of court day, mid-terms are over. Trump needs them, the sycophants who are left at DOJ are incompetent
Irreversible brand damage, none of these firms will be in existence in 10yrs.
Assholes.
INSANE YOU COWARDS
Is Kirkland & Ellis backed by Costco?
And the question is how much will they give on the second and third rounds of demands.
Is there any rule that it has to be GOOD legal service? Like, can they thoroughly fuck things up?
All of these firms are now conflicted out of any action against Trump. It's like a husband who talks to all the divorce lawyers in town so his wife can't use their services.
Unbelievable.
#VichyLaw
#WeimarLaw firms
Shameful.
WHY!
Law firms that have decided they don’t care about the law. All because they fear (or love) Trump. What a disgrace.
They love their houses boats private schools and position in the patriarchy. I say we boycott till they're broke
My hubs walks by a “fuck the patriarchy” sticker on my french door, every time he grills. 😛
Unfortunately, they’re not the kinds of firms that would be looking for business from you or I. So you need to find somebody else to boycott them.
Every lawyer that participated in these firms’ decisions to collaborate with Trump should be disbarred. Every lawyer that doesn’t leave these firms because of their collaboration with Trump should also be disbarred. Lawyers literally take an oath to do the opposite of this.
They’re no different than Nazi collaborators.
You are so right. They should be disbarred. They have broken their oath.
Why are prestigious, rich law firms accommodating the extortion of this lawless mobster? Seriously, I cannot comprehend what is happening
remember their names
The only good news is traitor will need all of the free legal and still go to jail. Good luck w classified docs once impeached or out of office.
It's not just the free legal services - if they represent Trump and his pals, they're conflicted for cases against them. Donald's taken them off the board.
THIS
It’s that more than anything
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I had not thought of that, but now that you mention it, I understand. Gotta say, it's a good move. I'm sure Trump didn't think of it.
True. And worse, I think. Where they might previously have defended people against Trump, Trump will now use their free legal counsel to go after his enemies. Nor are the dollar amounts accurate. Trump will run through it all, and demand more.
This is really scary. A deal with the devil.
This is exactly what I was thinking. The terms couldn't have been clearer - if they had ever bothered to pay attention to Donald Trump.
I really didn’t believe this would have happened. What has happened to these intelligent people? What is their end game!? I can’t believe that it would be smooth sailing for all of the employees. There must be some dissent.
That's how blackmail works, you never break free
And they keep getting higher and higher.
They have phone numbers. Call and ask how they like working for nazi collaborators www.paulweiss.com/contact-us www.milbankworks.com/contact www.willkie.com/contact-us Call skadden +12127353000
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By 1939 in Nazi Germany, lawyers could ONLY represent the state. They're willfully putting us on that path. Fuck them all.
Criminal
It's gross
Vichy Lawyers
Fucking insane.
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At New York or Washington rates, might not be too many jobs!!
$50 million/hour.
Disgusting 🫣 🤮
The more the merrier
Very close to one billion dollars!
Pure shit lawyers
Even at $2,000 per billable hour these are enormous numbers. They haven’t just thrown in the towel. They’ve thrown in everything including the kitchen sink.
And a chainsaw.
They have phone numbers. Call and ask how they like working for nazi collaborators www.paulweiss.com/contact-us www.milbankworks.com/contact www.willkie.com/contact-us Call skadden +12127353000
Even at $2,000/hr, these law firms pledged tens of thousands of hours to defend Trump’s authoritarian agenda. This isn’t just throwing in the towel it’s the rule of law, the kitchen sink, and the Constitution, all bundled into a pro bono invoice. #BigLaw #Complicit
All those lawyer jokes aren’t funny anymore; they’re true
Traitors!!
Hopefully they will use AI & regular copy & paste for any and all work they do for the regime. And ideally anything they find out the regime is doing will be forwarded to the public. Best extortionist legal services money can buy!
Fingers crossed - I had wondered if this could be a possibility to sink him - let's hope.
As Republicans have caved, so goes everyone else.
Ugh!
Traitors
They have phone numbers. Call and ask how they like working for nazi collaborators www.paulweiss.com/contact-us www.milbankworks.com/contact www.willkie.com/contact-us Call skadden +12127353000
Shameful
Quisling, Quisling & Quisling, LLP
Simple solution. They could charge $50 million/ hr and get their obligation over with ASAP. Who’s Dicktater Donnie to quibble about fees?
Couple of questions 🙋🏻♀️ Do they have to represent him directly or do they have to represent who he says? Will they represent Don Jr on drug racketeering charges for example? Do these free extortion dollars expire? How are these law firms this fucking stupid and lily livered?
Maybe they will do a bad job of defending Trumpists and will be the resistance from within. Hoping.
Trump needs someone to argue at the Supreme Court for him,,,all the DOJ staff have resigned because they have integrity. Guys like Neil Katyal have none - $$$ talks.
These "free legal services" will solidify the Trump legacy after Trump is dead. Thank you, fellow attorneys.
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Corrupt vile disgusting law firms and attorneys
So many "patriots" in this country, they're coming out of our 🍑!
Sickening 🥲
tagging so i can reference in the future.. these collaborators will be remembered for their support of anti-democratic, republic ending policies and procedures.
When the shakedown is complete amongst the elite class, it will continue in some form with everyday people. Everyone (I mean that) will be shaken down eventually.
What if a law firm were to pledge free services and then just flub the case and let Trump loose? What if all these firms colluded to do this?
If this were a normal attorney/client relationship I’d say that would be unethical, but these lawyers have unburdened themselves of their canon. So I think they’d do the necessary to preserve themselves.
I considered that as well.
Collaborators is an apt term
there's a dynamic at play here which i think people outside of the legal field (not you, Marc, I know you know this) do not fully understand. biglaw firms are split between litigators and transactional lawyers. the former sue and defend clients; the latter structure deals between clients.
in most large firms, transactional attorneys outnumber litigators by a large margin, and when you look at revenue generated, transactional WILDLY outpaces litigation.
trump's ability to threaten the livelihoods of litigators is... not zero, but not hugely significant. he can yank security clearances, that hurts. Mostly he could threaten to not do business with the firm's clients, which is sometimes an empty or meaningless threat.
trump's ability to threaten a firm's transactional business is MASSIVE and existential. He can sue to block mergers. Launch investigations of funds. Subject firms to CFIUS review. Illegal? Sure, and while you prove it, a client's funding round collapses or their M&A partner gets cold feet.
Also, the pro bono work Trump will ask firms to do is... mostly litigation-related. Litigators are going to be the ones asked to sign ridiculous briefs and sue schools letting trans kids compete in sports.
Hard to see how Simpson and Kirkland do this stuff just from a numbers standpoint. If someone was smart (and they are) they’d be out forming charities to which the pro bono hours can be directed. Something really really bulletproof—
So we have one set of partners whose work is deeply threatened by Trump, who won't really have to do the nastiest things he'll demand, and who have much more power and influence... and one group whose work isn't, who will, and who don't. Obvious how that equation shakes out.
At my own firm, almost everyone is outraged at these surrenders. But when I say "almost," every single one of the attorneys who isn't outraged is transactional. And everyone who is outraged enough to be threatening to quit, or planning to quit, is a litigator.
This isn't meant as a slur at transactional attorneys, most of whom are horrified by all this. They just have a different incentive structure, and at the very top - at the executive committee and managing partner level - that incentive structure is winning out.
How does any client w/a regulatory matter get past the conflict check for onboarding? If an atty in DC cannot take on a client bc another atty in LA has a vaguely conflicting matter w/ the same parties,how can a lawyer take on a regulatory issue when the WHOLE fucking firm is in the bag for the gov?
That’s not how conflicts work at large firms. The actual rules about conflicts of interest are complicated but, while a firm can’t be on both sides of a single matter, they can often represent both parties in other, unrelated matters.
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing.
One word comes to mind: Nuremberg.
It’s my fantasy. Dark days indeed, when this is what gets me excited.
Almost a billion dollars. Insane.
So shameful it’s actually hard to believe. These forms and the lawyers that work for them are forever stained.
*firms
Some lawyers have courage, ethics and a moral compass, but they’re not in this bunch.
Wow, what a shameful display of cowardice. Trump the grubby extortionist! Yet another point of disgrace for this administration. Criminal syndicate is more accurate. One would hope that the client lists of these worms falls off a cliff, and new business is non existent.
Just imagine what profits they must be making. It's obscene. I should add that not every lawyer is rich beyond their wildest dreams. In the UK, there are plenty of high street lawyers who serve the public interest.
Women of America when you see these kind of people supporting Trump they are supporting a war on women. MAKE sure you let them know you know exactly what they represent.
On Women, Blacks, LGBTQ, Green card holders, visa holders, undocumented, students, universities, teachers, schools, Blue States, our allies. Who am I forgetting?
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The Vichy 9
I suspect one of Trump's biggest causes is himself....
He admitted that saying he doesn't know how much he will need when he's 'out.'
A bad Omen.
Of course, these agreements only last as long as Republicans are in power.
Mobster Trump extorted close to a $ BILLION in free legal services from these law firms. When this reaches SCOTUS via lawsuits like Sussman Godfrey against Trump's EOs, John Roberts better clean up the mess he made. Scotus & judiciary (Aileen Cannon) created this monster. bsky.app/profile/davi...
I don't usually try to predict the future, but this one's easy. John Roberts will not try to clean up the mess he made. He doesn't care, any more than Dumpster & Musky care.
They won't be able to save face when this nightmare is over. 🗽🇪🇺🇺🇦🌻
They have phone numbers. Call and ask how they like working for nazi collaborators www.paulweiss.com/contact-us www.milbankworks.com/contact www.willkie.com/contact-us Call skadden +12127353000
Thanks for the info. 🗽🇪🇺🇺🇦🌻
He is so phony! He puts on this innocent look when he is so to blame for this horrible mess!
Roberts infuriates me! I'm sure I'm not alone. He's done tremendous damage to our country. Shame on him!
Sussman Godfrey's lawsuit against Trump and his freaking executive orders targeting law firms should be the model going forward. As David Corn says, it's astonishing "firms caved quickly to Trump's mob-like and unconstitutional shakedown". bsky.app/profile/davi...
BRAVO!
Look at these lawyers putting billing’s over standing up to a criminal.
Grotesque
Enough to corrupt the rule of law & the constitution! With the DOJ, AG, judges & attys. in trumps pocket, the continued abuse of power will continue. The Cowardly Repub. house & senate are the only ones who have the means to stop this destruction of our nation! If they don’t: VOTE THEM ALL OUT!
Keep sharing the facts. Keep the lights on do their kids and grand kids understand that they sold out their country and values.
Please list the firms like Perkins Coie that have resisted this extortion.
Yes please!
Yes - that list could let the others know they are not alone, and to join with them to fight this together. It might also earn them clients who might leave the firms that caved. Also, to give the people hope that the law is still on their side.
It would also tell you which firms to support with your business
Related: bsky.app/profile/heid...
Traitors
So the longer they took, the more it cost them?
What’s interesting is that I tried to search LinkedIn and none of this! I saw the Paul Weiss and Skadden, and I’m in Legal. I tried all kinds of keywords. None of those law firm names are coming up. I don’t think news is getting out about this.
So disgusting.
Seems like amounts that make me think he knows he’s breaking a lot of laws..
Holyshitgoddamn!@@
$840M $840,000,000.00 😖
OPPPPSSS I MISSED 1 $940M $940,000,000.00
So almost $1 BILLION of free lawyering for his favorite cause: HIMSELF!!! What do you think he might be planning to do?
So devastating! I know how hard you are working to defend democracy, Marc. Why is it everyone is cowing to this mad man and how on earth can democracy be defended when the most prominent legal minds in the U S are bailing so easily 💔💔💔🇨🇦💙
