Due to Trump's executive order targeting them, large legal law firm agrees to work for him for free + take action against DEI

[OscarAcosta]

Most major law firms, and Paul Weiss is definitely one of those, will have pro-bono ’obligations’ and targets already. I assume they’ll swap out a needy and worthwhile cause for one which is worthless and probably needs no fukking help paying for lawyers at all, well as long as it’s a cause close to this orange shytc*nt’s wallet.

PW won’t be any worse off, and might actually benefit from this ultimately.

Absolutely brazen extortion. It’s fukking mad what’s happening in plain sight,

 

[ORDER_66]

You can't keep trying to play this troll role in serious threads breh. It's a bad look and the things Trump does will affect you as well. Prescription drug costs are already getting higher.

What do you want us to do about it. the people voted for trump... its too late to run it back. what do you honestly want us to do???

 

[Neuromancer]

What do you want us to do about it. the people voted for trump... its too late to run it back. what do you honestly want us to do???

For one stop playing this troll roll.

 

[King]

Yea it's impeachable but bothside c00ns failed to realize his party is cultists and won't keep him on a leash

Neither will the Democrats

In fact, most of them are co-signing his shyt in writing behind their virtue signaling populism.

 

[Gloxina]

What Trump is doing is nothing to admire. Dude is breaking the law and daring people to say shyt. This isn't how we want our government to work regardless of who's in power.

We tried telling people, bu they wanted to latch onto dumbass youtube conspiracies and battle online for who sounds the "realest". Hope you got your money up. The moment the people with money in opposition throw in the towel (like it looks is happening), it's a wrap we're officially in a dictatorship.

Ay yo!!!



Literally had white patients in my office whispering “I didn’t think it would be this bad. They told us he would do this, but I didn’t believe it would be like this. I believe in the law! I believe in decorum! I believe in giving everyone a fair chance! I can’t believe he is doing this!”


I KID YOU NOT!!!! These white women were whispering like no one could fukking hear them!


But that’s exactly what tf happened! These cacs lying talking about they voted for Kamala. They voted for Trump but they didn’t expect him to do all this shyt!

 

[Pull Up the Roots]

Neither will the Democrats

In fact, most of them are co-signing his shyt in writing behind their virtue signaling populism.

How would the minority party do this, especially when Republican's control the house and all the committees, including the judicial committee where the process itself starts?

 

[Gloxina]

they only coming for illegal immigrants. not my problem

they only coming for legal immigrants. not my problem

they only coming for LGBTQ. not my problem

they only coming for Palestinian protesters. not my problem

they only coming for..

fools too shortsighted to see that anyone who ain’t Anglo will be targeted at some point. They’ll be swinging back around to us soon enough

 

[ORDER_66]

For one stop playing this troll roll.

I'm not trolling people... if anything ive been honest with people here since day 1...not my fault if people dont want to accept the truth about politicians and politics... it's 2025 and we've gotten nowhere. we still at the bottom. bruh...

 

[Gloxina]

An attorney/firm fighting back

 

[Wild self]

But the coli told me the president was powerless and he couldnt do anything without the govt...

Doing dictator shyt aint "masculine" or "gangsta". Ask Elon how he feels with people all around the world burning Tesla dealerships down to the ground.

 

[ORDER_66]

Doing dictator shyt aint "masculine" or "gangsta". Ask Elon how he feels with people all around the world burning Tesla dealerships down to the ground.

He has insurance he'll be fine...

 

[get these nets]

Addressing Risks from Jenner & Block

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.

www.whitehouse.gov

Trump targets Jenner & Block in latest executive order aimed at law firms​

March 25, 2025

U.S. President Donald Trump holds an executive order, at the White House, in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 25, 2025.

WASHINGTON, March 25 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump expanded his attacks on major U.S. law firms on Tuesday as he signed an executive order targeting Jenner & Block, which represents clients challenging some of his major policies and formerly employed a prosecutor involved in a special counsel investigation of his 2016 campaign.
The order resembled ones that Trump previously issued against prominent firms Perkins Coie and Paul Weiss. These orders suspended security clearances for their lawyers and restricted their access to government buildings, officials and federal contracting work.
Get weekly news and analysis on U.S. politics and how it matters to the world with the Reuters Politics U.S. newsletter. Sign up here.

The Republican president cited Jenner & Block's past employment of Andrew Weissmann, a top federal prosecutor involved in former U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation that detailed Russian contacts with Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.
Trump, who faced criminal charges in four separate cases after his first term as president, has complained that large law firms worked with Democrats against him and his allies. White House Staff Secretary Will Scharf, in explaining Trump's action, accused Jenner & Block of "weaponization of the legal system against American principles and values."

Jenner & Block did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
In all, Trump has signed executive orders targeting four major U.S. law firms. Paul Weiss subsequently made a deal with Trump to escape the executive order. The order "could easily have destroyed our firm," Paul Weiss chairman Brad Karp said in a letter on Sunday defending the agreement.
Jenner & Block has been involved in litigation challenging policies pursued by Trump since he returned to office in January.

In one case, Jenner & Block and other firms won a court ruling that blocked enforcement of a Trump executive order halting federal funding to healthcare providers that offer gender transition treatments to people under 19. In another, the firm is on the legal team representing immigrant rights groups challenging Trump's efforts to curb asylum rights.
Jenner & Block also is representing an environmental group in a lawsuit accusing Trump's Environmental Protection Agency of illegally freezing grant money.

The firm employs several former officials from the administrations of Democratic Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden, as well as lawyers who previously worked with the U.S. House of Representatives committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump's supporters.
Weissmann was at the firm from 2006 to 2011, and returned there in 2020 after serving on Mueller's prosecution team. Weissmann did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Perkins Coie sued the administration this month, accusing Trump of exceeding his powers.
U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell in Washington on March 12 temporarily blocked parts of Trump's order against Perkins Coie, finding the firm's lawsuit was likely to succeed.
"I am sure many in the legal profession are watching in horror about what Perkins Coie is going through here," Howell said.
Trump on Friday directed the Justice Department to recommend similar moves against lawyers and law firms that handle immigration cases or that sued the government over the past eight years - a group that includes many of the largest U.S. firms.
Bar associations and legal experts said this month that Trump's targeting of law firms could cast a chill over the freedom lawyers have to represent clients of their choice

 

[get these nets]

Two law firms targeted by Trump sue over executive orders that sought to punish them​

03/28/25
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two prominent law firms targeted by the White House sued Friday over virtually identical executive orders, pushing back over edicts meant to punish them over their association with attorneys who have previously investigated President Donald Trump.
The federal complaints filed by Jenner & Block and WilmerHale urge judges to block enforcement of the orders, which seek among other sanctions to suspend security clearances of the firms’ lawyers and restrict their employees from having access to federal buildings. The firms say in their lawsuits that the orders, part of a spate of similar actions taken by Trump over the past month, amount to an assault on the bedrock foundations of the legal system and are an unconstitutional form of presidential retaliation.
“Our Constitution, top to bottom, forbids attempts by the government to punish citizens and lawyers based on the clients they represent, the positions they advocate, the opinions they voice, and the people with whom they associate,” said the complaint from Jenner & Block, filed in federal court in Washington.

The firms say the days-old orders have already affected their business, with Jenner & Block saying that one client has been notified by the Justice Department that the firm cannot attend a meeting at the building next week.


“That client therefore will either need to attend the meeting without outside counsel or would need to retain new outside counsel before April 3,” the lawsuit says.







Targeted law firms have taken different approaches to executive orders that threaten to upend their business model and chill their legal practice. Besides the two that sued on Friday, the law firm of Perkins Coie, also challenged the Trump order in court and succeeded in getting a judge to temporarily block enforcement. The Paul Weiss firm, by contrast, cut a deal with the White House days after being targeted, with its chairman saying that the order presented an “existential crisis” for the firm and that he wasn’t sure it could have survived a protracted fight with the Trump administration.


The executive order against Jenner & Block this week stemmed from the fact that the firm once employed Andrew Weissmann, a lawyer who served on special counsel Robert Mueller’s team that investigated Trump during his first term in office. Weissmann left the firm four years ago.

Mueller has retired from WilmerHale, but the White House executive order from Thursday mentions him as well as another retired partner and a current partner who all served on Mueller’s team.


“While most litigation requires discovery to unearth retaliatory motive, the Order makes no secret of its intent to punish WilmerHale for its past and current representations of clients before the Nation’s courts and for its perceived connection to the views that Mr. Mueller expressed as Special Counsel,” the WilmerHale lawsuit says

 

[east]

skadden capitulates to the tune of $100mm, jenner/wilmer granted temporary restraining order

https://www.reuters.com/legal/jenner-block-sues-us-government-following-trump-executive-order-2025-03-28/

 

[get these nets]

More Than 500 Law Firms Sign Amicus Brief in Support of Perkins Coie

About a dozen Am Law 200 firms, including at least eight Am Law 100 firms, have signed on to the brief.

www.law.com

Perkins Coie gets 500 lawfirms and 300 retired judges to help battle Trump​

April 05, 2025

Share options​

---

---

---

The lead firm on the filing.
Over 500 law firms have filed an amicus brief (PDF) in support of Perkins Coie's case against the U.S. Department of Justice, the named defendants, et. al..
The firms signing on take up 12 pages of the 24 page brief, filed on Friday. As evidence, it lists Trump's executive orders against WilmerHale, Jenner & Block and Paul Weiss, and the specific suspension of security clearance and contracts at Covington & Burling.
The lead law firm filing the brief is Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP. Their statement about the brief is short.

The brief argues that it is critical for our judicial system and the rule of law that lawyers be able to represent clients without suffering governmental repercussions merely for doing so.
The Executive Orders issued recently against prominent law firms raise important issues for our courts to decide. We are honored to participate together with so many of our colleagues in the legal profession in the submission of this brief.

In the brief itself, they describe the order's designed chilling effect and say that the TRO should be permanently enjoined as a violation of the First, Fifth and Sixth Amendments to the Constitution.
"But something even more fundamental is at stake. In recent weeks the president has issued not one but five executive orders imposing punitive sanctions on leading law firms in an undisguised retaliation for representation that the firm, or its former partners, have undertaken, and more may be in the offing. Those Orders pose a grave threat to our system of constitutional governance and to the rule of law itself. The Judiciary should act with resolve -- now --- to ensure that this abuse of executive power ceases."
"The Executive Order, at issue in this case, and others like it, take direct aim at several of the Nation's leading law firms and seek to cow every other firm, large and small, into submission."
After going over the draconian punishments listed in the executive orders and their designed purpose, the brief goes into detail of how lawyers represent everyone, not just ones to their liking. Basically it's Law 101 and how the judicial system works. Then it describes how it won't work with Trump continuing his attack on law firms that either had his enemies in them, or defended them from him, or were litigating against his administration.
"Since this Court entered its Temporary Restraining Order, the Administration has redoubled its threats of retaliation against the legal profession."
"... which attack those firms' pro bono representations as, 'activities that make our communities less safe, increase burdens on local businesses, limit constitutional freedoms, and degrade the quality of American elections,' is cause for particularly acute concern."
Calling firms' pro bono work as dangers to society has been in each one of the executive orders. The law firms that have caved in, as part of their restitution for having committed the crime of representing people against the administration or Trump, have been blackmailed into providing free pro bono work to whoever Trump decides should receive it, in the amount of $40 million on the first firm, and $100 million since, on each law firm.
The orders also attack the firms' DEI programs, calling it discrimination, revoke security clearances, and prohibit access to federal buildings, making it impossible to pursue federal cases.
"In too many countries and instances to name, regimes have disbarred, prosecuted and jailed lawyers who dared to represent opposition figures or challenge government actions, with predictable results for rule of law and the integrity of the legal profession."