More than 500 law firms – including some of the country’s largest – brought a legal file on Friday to oppose the executive orders of Donald Trump who attacked law firms who hired his political enemies.
However, the 27 most profitable law firms in America.
From Kirkland & Ellis, which brought in $ 8.8 billion in income last year and has around 3,800 lawyers in Paul Hastings, with more than $ 2 billion in revenues, the legal team of Corporate America was largely silent.
The 27 companies that did not collectively sign more than $ 74 billion in revenues last year.
“The largest law firms are extraordinarily powerful, and in this case, this power paralyzes them.
The thesis was deposited in support of Perkins Coie, a law firm whose lawyers Trump actually considered a national security threat in an executive decree which prohibited them in federal buildings, stripped them of security authorizations and forced government entrepreneurs to disclose if they used the firm.
Several former partners of Perkins Coie represented some of Trump’s political adversaries, but most of the company’s political lawyers have left.
Some large companies have connected to the brief, just like some classy lawyers and first action lawyers who often represent the complainants pursuing large companies.
The American branch of Freshfields, a law firm from companies founded in the United Kingdom, which would have made around 20% of its activities in the United States, signed the brief. Arnold & Porter, a large company based in DC which represented federal workers accused of being communists during the “red fear” of the 1950s, also included his name. Arnold & Porter was one of the eight companies among the 100 highest incomes in the country that signed, according to Law.com.
Other companies targeted by Trump’s orders have gathered behind Perkins. Covington & Burling, who gave legal advice to a prosecutor who continued Trump, as well as Wilmerhale and Jenner & Block, who continued the Trump administration on executive decrees that targeted them, all put their names on the memory.
But the lack of the largest American companies was frustrating, said Eimer, who told Business Insider that he did not know whose names would be included until the filing of legal documents because the process was treated with extreme confidentiality.
“I understand, on the side of management, why they believe that endangering their business is their primordial concern. But in my opinion, in the end, lawyers have an obligation to the courts,” he said, “and the constitution which replaces our commercial interest”.
Lawyers’ firms, including Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, Milbank and Willkie Farr & Gallagher, have concluded agreements with the Trump administration to collectively devote hundreds of millions of dollars for lawyers and the fight against anti -Semitism.
Bloomberg reported that the conservative group The surveillance project wrote a letter to law firms asking them to donate up to $ 10 million in legal advice and other “center-right” groups to help satisfy their commitments.
The first company to conclude an agreement with the Trump administration was Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison, whose president, Brad Karp, and the main lawyers are known to be political progressives. Karp defended the agreement with the Trump administration in an email sent to the cabinet at the end of last month, saying that competing law firms immediately started trying to poach Paul Weiss’s customers and lawyers.
“The resolution that we have reached with the administration will have no effect on our work and our culture and our shared values,” wrote Karp.
The name of Paul Weiss is not on the memory.
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