US EditionNYT: Trump Administration Abandons Efforts to Impose Orders on Law Firms
The Justice Department ended appeals after district judges ruled against Trump-era legal restrictions targeting firms, highlighting challenges in enforcing politically motivated executive orders.
- On Monday, Justice Department lawyers told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia they would drop the consolidated appeals and asked the court to dismiss them after missing last month’s filing deadline.
- In February 2025, executive orders targeted over a dozen law firms, some capitulated, others resisted, risking clients and contracts, as Trump sought to punish adversaries.
- Nine firms, including Paul Weiss, struck deals with the White House involving free legal work, while internal strife featured Scott A. Barshay pushing concessions and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission closed a hiring probe with little cooperation.
- The dispute roiled the legal establishment and pushed many firms to submit rather than face the existential threat of the directives, raising alarms over damage to law firms' clients and businesses.
- Advocates say litigation has become essential to check the administration, with JustSecurity and The New York Times tracking at least 650 cases and the administration applying a supply-chain risk label to Anthropic last week.
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