A fourth major U.S. law firm, Milbank, reached an agreement on Wednesday with President Donald Trump, who has targeted other firms with punitive executive orders, in a deal disclosed a day after the firm of former Vice President Kamala Harris' husband struck its own pact.
More than 300 law professors and other legal groups submitted court briefs backing law firm Perkins Coie in its lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's executive order that punished the firm for its work for Hillary Clinton and its diversity policies.
You traveled to Washington to surrender before you had even begun to fight," the family of the late Judge Simon Rifkind wrote to the chairman of Paul Weiss.
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But the firms fear the orders are being written so broadly as to potentially weaken national security by calling into question the status of security clearances of lawyers who, in addition to their legal practice, serve as military reservists and require their clearances to report to duty.
Law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher has reached a settlement deal with the Trump administration that will see them provide $100 million in legal services.
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A prominent international law firm has reached a deal with President Donald Trump to provide at least $100 million in free legal services and to review its hiring practices, averting a punishing execu
On March 27, Trump ordered the federal government to stop working with Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP (WilmerHale)—suspending the law firm’s security clearances, directing federal agencies to terminate contracts they have with the firm, and limiting WilmerHale employees’ access to government buildings.
The firm that employs former Vice President Kamala Harris' husband is the latest legal powerhouse to agree to terms with President Trump — moves that worry some attorneys and constitutional scholars.
The law firm’s chairman, Brad Karp, capitulated to the president’s threats. The descendants of the man who wrote its high-minded principles told Mr. Karp that he had betrayed them.