When President Donald Trump issued an executive order this month Suzy Jodfrey targetingOne of the prominent law firms in the country, the road was clear.
This came as “the total boundary of blue”, one of the lawyers who later representing the company said during a court hearing. Nobody in Suzman Jodfrey with the White House spoke about cutting a deal, according to two people familiar with this issue.
The company was ready to fight.
The two people said that the partners unanimously agreed that the company would sue the United States government to prevent the executive order within two hours from its review.
in Trump’s political campaign against major lawNine companies have He deals with the presidentA group promising 940 million dollars in free work. Four – Perkins Koy, Jenner & Block, Wilmergil Fighting the administration in the court.
After more than a month of Trump’s war on the major law, there is little evidence that has suffered from these four companies with severe consequences for choosing the fighting.
In each of the four cases, Federal judges have banned more quickly the elements of every executive order and indicated that they would be sentenced later for law firms.
The judge’s rapid order is on the potential damage Jenner & BlockAccording to a source familiar with the matter. Forty percent of the company’s revenue said from companies that have government contracts. The source said that while the clients were tense, the source was only one, he represented it on a free basis.
Wall Street Magazine I mentioned that the largest customer of Berkins Koy, including Amazon and Boeing, adhered to the company, although it has lost some works from Haniole. William Malley, the company’s administrative partner, Tell the American lawyer He sees “momentum” at work this year after the average company profit grew for each partner in the stocks by about 16 % in 2024.
It is not clear whether Wilmerhale or Susman Godfrey has lost any clients. Both of them said in the court files that Trump’s executive orders will harm their work, but they have not presented any examples of agents who leave or refuse to do commercial work.
Trump is exposed to a court abandonment
In court, the firm firms that fight.
They have argued that executive orders violate the constitution and that they are examples of the textbooks of the government that illegally targeting people and companies about their speech and violating their customers’ right to advice.
Executive orders say that law firms run DEI discriminatory programs and that some of them constitute national security threats because they used lawyers who previously achieved Trump.
The lawyers of the Ministry of Justice have argued that Trump’s powers are very wide for the judge to prevent orders, and that the judicial branch cannot even force the White House to explain himself.
In a hearing on April 23, the American boycott judge, Berell Huil, who supervises the Perkins Koi case, appeared incredible in government arguments. Richard Lawson, a lawyer for the Ministry of Justice, has undergone a hail of sarcastic questions often about the executive order, and aside some of its positions as “excessive technical legal arguments that may not have an advantage.”
On the list, Meanwhile, the administration was dismantled.
The two lawyers who represent the government are Chad Mizal, Chief of Staff of the two years for the American -year -old Bam Bondi, who worked in the first Trump administration and in a pair of elite law firms, and Lawson, who joined the Ministry of Justice after a long period of non -profit organizations that he founded and Trump Stephen Miller.
Two other officials at the Justice Ministry of Justice, which was previously working on the Perkins Koy case, came out, one for retirement.
Representatives of the Ministry of Justice did not respond to the request for comment.
Companies that sue government are working with heavy legal weights. Perkins Koy Williams and Konoli chose; Cooley Llp Jenner & Block; the Conservative legal star Paul Clement represents Wilmerhale; Susanman Jodfrey Toulas Monger, the elite law firm, rented A previous legal summary He argues against Trump’s executive orders.
Each lawsuit also attracted a wide range of amicus – supportive legal arguments – from law professors, former judges, lawyers associations, preachers of freedom of the press, and others.
“I was a little superior to here,” Judge Lauren Alejhan from Lawson said when he came alone to a hearing in the case of Suzzman Jodfrey earlier this month.
Will deals continue?
Trump’s executive orders could have canceled the contracts of each governmental company and lawyers for lawyers. They could also prevent the company’s employees from government buildings, and Judge Alejhan said that Trump’s order means that lawyers would not be able to enter the courts or post offices.
Brad CarbPaul Weiss President, Trump’s first Trump, described the executive matter as an “existential crisis” that our company can destroy “in an internal note explaining why he chose the strike A deal with the president.
The companies that concluded the White House – Paul Weiss, Scadel, Milbank, Wilki Var, Kad and Adadir, Kirkland and Eleles, A & C, Simpson Thashcher, and Watham Watskins – in Trump’s good blessing at the present time.
Their agreements may not be stable, and the conditions of each deal are still mysterious. It is also not clear whether there are more detailed basic agreements that raise the responsibilities of each company. If any company challenges the Trump administration in court or picks up a customer who interferes with Trump, he can issue a new executive order.
“If he has a different interpretation of companies, he can bring them by issuing an executive order,” said Nate Emeer, a lawyer who represents more than 800 companies that oppose executive orders,. He said that the companies that settled, “put themselves in a very difficult situation.”
The White House did not answer questions about whether the non -general agreements are present. None of the companies that concluded deals for suspension requests responded. Wilmeerhale representatives refused to comment. Perkins Koy did not respond to the suspension requests.
Trump has publicly thought about using law firms for various purposes. At the television cabinet meeting a week after its announcement of a comprehensive tariff, he said he could negotiate commercial deals.
Mike Huga, who runs the supervision project, has sent a group of conservative heritage Foundation, messages to many law firms – including some Trump not targeted – asking them to perpetuate $ 10 million to help charm freedom of information against agencies in “blue states”.
“I am dealing with my level with the administrative partners, some of whom responded very quickly,” said Hawul. Some said, in the most beautiful way as possible, “The Tanner.”
Atmosphere
Fighting decisions or cutting the deal Huge openings inside the legal profession.
Divisions between the litigants and deals manufacturers have emerged, between property rights partners and ideal partners, and between large companies with central decision -making operations and small democratic partnerships.
“Paul Weiss – if they are not characterized, we may have a chance,” said Sean Burke, a legal festival with Wesler Partners. “It was like the straw that broke the back of the camel before it started.”
Paul Weiss free leader LeaveAlthough he said that changing his life had been working for months. A Veteral government contractor in Berkins Koy Go to a different company. Many colleagues in companies that signed deals Their employers resigned and exploded on LinkedIn.
Some lawyers left quietly. One of them, who left a company, said a deal with Trump: “I am the primary breadwinner for my family.” “I have no wealth from generations to return to it. I am not one of those who can set fire to fire and leave.”
The former public prosecutor of the US Prosecutor’s Office in the southern province of New York, whose former colleagues fill the ranks of the major law.
The former public prosecutor said that some of the great law partners had expressed his pride in their private companies to fight. Others who understand why companies have concluded deals that are still not satisfied.
This person said: “Everyone is afraid, the period.” “Not from each other, but in general. There is only a culture of fear that I have not seen before in the major law.”
Lawyers of the interior companies are also nervous. They want to make sure that their external lawyer is ready to fight the government if necessary. One of the lawyers working in the office of the company’s general advisor’s office, Business Insider, told her company advisers at a law firm concluded a deal with Trump that it is necessary to stick to the influence with the organizers.
“It is a very satirical feeling,” said the internal lawyer who wants to redirect to other companies. “I don’t feel comfortable, if you are going to the government, you will represent me in front of the government.”
Catherine Tanjalkis-Libert and Brent Griffiths contributed to reporting.
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