An Uprising at a Big Law Firm Targeted by Trump

There’s a new dress code in Trump’s DC — and it’s straight out of a dictator’s playbook

— Trump’s legal serfs: when law firms bow to the Don. Trump is bragging about how he’s forced five more major US law firms to kiss his a-- and give away $940 million in free services to his favorite causes. So far, the rogues gallery of cowardly law firms which have put money above principle includes Kirkland & Ellis, Latham & Watkins, Allen Overy Shearman Sterling, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft, Paul Weiss, Skadden Mi…

The president is threatening to make it impossible for uncooperative lawyers to do their job if they don't do what he wants. Even now that a judge has called him to order.

'Uprising' at major law firm that just cut a deal with Trump: report

Attorneys working at a law firm that just cut a deal with President Donald Trump are reportedly in open revolt.The Bulwark's Sam Stein reports that more than 500 associate attorneys and staff at Allen Overy Shearman Sterling US LLP signed a letter imploring the firm not to take an offer from Trump t...

An Uprising at a Big Law Firm Targeted by Trump

(Composite / Photos: GettyImages / Shutterstock)[Editor’s note, April 11, 2025, 1:40 p.m.: This story has been updated to reflect President Trump’s announcement of an agreement with Kirkland & Ellis, A&O Sherman, Simpson Thatcher, and Latham & Watkins.]MORE THAN 500 ASSOCIATES and staff at a top global law firm sent a letter Friday morning urging the firm’s leadership not to enter into a consent agreement with Donald Trump as the White House ram…

Associates Beg A&O Shearman Not To Be The Next Collaborator - Above the Law

Biglaw firms keep folding under White House pressure, thinking that they’re just committing millions in pro bono payola to worthwhile veteran issues. Meanwhile, Donald Trump — with a characteristic lack of subtlety — publicly describes these deals as blank checks for free legal work on anything he dreams up — up to and including personal legal work based on his most recent statement. It’s the real life version of Lando’s deal with Darth Vader, e…

Bar Associations Take On Trump’s Attacks On Big Law, But What’s Next?

Bar Associations Take On Trump’s Attacks On Big Law, But What’s Next? sthyberg Fri, 04/11/2025 - 10:41 In the Media Elisabeth Haub School of Law Haub Law Professor Bennett Gershman discusses the Trump administration’s attacks on elite law firms with amNewYork, noting the growing resistance among bar associations defending judicial independence. https://www.amny.com/law/bar-associations-take-on-trumps-attacks-on-big-law-but… Contains Video No…