Another Lawsuit Filed Over Vindictive Executive Orders Targeting Lawyers - Above the Law

Another Lawsuit Filed Over Vindictive Executive Orders Targeting Lawyers - Above the Law

We told you — Biglaw ain’t all that when it comes to fighting the Trump administration and defending the rule of law. While Biglaw has the ignominious distinction of nine firms that have yielded to Donald Trump’s demands — and too many that have stayed silent in the face of repeated attacks on the profession — smaller law firms have repeatedly stood up in defense of the constitution. And it’s happening again. Attorney Mark Zaid, best known for h…

A New Trump Executive Order Extracts a High Price from Big Law

The order will turbo charge police violence, with the help of this nation's most pedigreed lawyers.

Fearing Trump, Some Law Firms Decline Pro Bono Immigration Cases

Hours after Donald J. Trump was sworn in for a second term, he issued an executive order laying the groundwork for mass deportations of immigrants and denying them legal assistance. Public interest groups focused on immigrant rights teamed up to fight the order and called in Gibson Dunn, a major law firm with the resources to help take on the White House. In January, Gibson Dunn, working with the groups, sued the Trump administration seeking to …

Inside Trump’s War on Law Firms

White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt, gloated by telling the media, “Big Law continues to bend the knee to President Trump because they know they were wrong, and he looks forward to putting their pro bono legal concessions toward implementing his America First agenda.”