Above The Law

APRIL 1, 2025

* Willkie Farr appears to be the next firm to face the “surrender or fight” choice. [ NY Times ] * Am Law 100 firms still mostly keeping their heads down as rule of law crumbles. American Lawyer ] * Another baby powder bankruptcy shenanigans loss. Chicago Sun-Times ] The post Morning Docket: 04.01.25

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Above The Law

JANUARY 27, 2025

But which firm did he land at? As noted by the American Lawyer , Emhoff is headed to Willkie Farr & Gallagher — a firm that brought in $1,500,000,000 gross revenue in 2023, putting it at No. Were thrilled to be adding Doug to the Willkie partnership during this period of transformational firm growth.

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Above The Law

APRIL 16, 2025

Firms are investing in GenAI tools. Clients want firms using GenAI tools. But the trend continues decidedly upward, with 79 percent of firms surveyed expect significant GenAI integration by 2027 and 95 percent of professionals anticipating that GenAI will be central to their workflow within five years. Vive le ROI!

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Above The Law

APRIL 9, 2025

Joseph Baio worked at Willkie Farr for 47 years. As a partner, he’d served on the firm’s executive committee. Most recently, the dean of the firm’s lawyers worked as a senior counsel. How Trump Is Putting Law Firms In A No-Win Situation [New York Times] Earlier : Biglaw Is Under Attack.

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Above The Law

MAY 20, 2025

I would never employ one of those law firms that did that, that essentially folded under these circumstances. The post Billionaire Says Biglaw Firms That Brokered Deals With Trump Are Persona Non Grata appeared first on Above the Law. note : Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. “Unequivocally? . “Unequivocally?”

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HowAppealing

APRIL 1, 2025

“Trump says Doug Emhoffs law firm latest to strike a deal with him; President Donald Trump has punished multiple law firms that have employed his perceived political opponents”: Mark Berman of The Washington Post has this report.

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Above The Law

APRIL 25, 2025

Given these concerns, your firm has several grounds upon which to disavow and pause [the agreement]. … Many of the signatories to this letter are lawyers, and several of us have worked at major law firms. The post Lawmakers Strongly Suggest That Biglaw Firms ‘Disavow’ Trump Deals appeared first on Above the Law.

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Above The Law

APRIL 7, 2025

When Willkie Farr surrendered to Donald Trump, inking a deal to save their hide (that is, avoid one of the increasingly common Executive Orders targeting Biglaw), we wondered how that move would go over at the firm. But Willkie is a different firm today. The rule of law is clearly under threat.

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HowAppealing

APRIL 1, 2025

“Doug Emhoffs Law Firm Is Said to Be Trumps Next Target; The firm, Willkie Farr & Gallagher, also employs a top investigator for the congressional committee that documented President Trumps role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol”: Michael S.

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Above The Law

APRIL 10, 2025

(not the Mr. T of “The A-Team,” a popular TV show of decades ago) has announced that some of the law firms he has used for target practice have agreed to his terms and conditions pursuant to various executive orders. Cadwalader is the latest Biglaw firm trying to avoid an executive order. Benny replied, Im thinking it over.

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Above The Law

APRIL 1, 2025

These are the Biglaw firms that have seen Executive Orders aimed at them for the grievous insult of having their attorneys take cases that Donald Trump or his allies just don’t like. And the folks at Willkie Farr think they know who is next. AtL tipsters are the best, so please connect with her.

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Above The Law

MAY 19, 2025

But if it were up to Kirkland & Ellis — the worlds richest law firm — a lot more than nine firms would have already bent the knee to Trump. The coordinated plan had the effect of deflecting and sharing the outrage over the bargain between the firms that all capitulated on the same day. This is some shady BS.

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JURIST

APRIL 11, 2025

US President Donald Trump’s administration targeted Houston-based law firm Susman Godfrey LLP in an executive order Wednesday, zeroing in on the firm’s previous defamation litigation related to the US 2020 election and its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs. million settlement.

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Above The Law

MAY 20, 2025

What do associates at major law firms care about more than money? But in times like these, when Biglaw firms are signing away their very legacies to appease Donald Trump’s unconstitutional whims, being a leader when it comes to compensation may not be enough to rescue a firms floundering prestige. Prestige, of course.

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Above The Law

MAY 6, 2025

Remember when a handful of Biglaw firms committed tens of millions of dollars in pro bono promises to the Trump administration causes hoping to trade some benign charitable work for a reprieve from potentially devastating White House retaliation? BECAUSE THE FIRMS SURE DON’T! If only someone had predicted this from the start!

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Above The Law

APRIL 1, 2025

(Photo by (Photo by David Becker/Getty Images) Earlier today , we learned that Biglaw firm Willkie Farr was preparing to be the next Biglaw firm targeted by Donald Trump’s likely unconstitutional Executive Orders. Just texted with a partner at Willkie who had no idea this was in the works.

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JURIST

APRIL 3, 2025

US law firm Perkins Coie asked a federal court on Wednesday to permanently block President Donald Trump’s administration from enforcing an executive order imposing sanctions against the firm. Perkins Coie is one of several firms that have sued the administration in response to the orders.

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Above The Law

MAY 14, 2025

Nine Biglaw firms struck deals with Donald Trump in order to avoid his punitive Executive Orders designed to extract a financial penalty. Jamie Raskin probed the firms on the content of the deals. Notwithstanding the slick talk from firms, there are still questions about those deals. The firms have until May 30th to respond.

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Law 360

APRIL 1, 2025

After issuing a string of executive orders in recent weeks targeting BigLaw firms, President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP had agreed to provide $100 million in pro bono legal services for certain causes and to refrain from what Trump has called discriminatory diversity hiring practices.

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Above The Law

MAY 27, 2025

RICHARDS/AFP/Getty Images) This will come as a shock, but the White House can’t just arbitrarily punish law firms for disagreeing with the president. Even within the universe of unconstitutional power grabs, the orders targeting law firms were especially clumsily written. (Photo by PAUL J. See Aref, 833 F.3d See, e.g., Pl.s

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Above The Law

MAY 19, 2025

For demoralized people stuck inside these firms, I think this is catharsis. Nine firms have cut deals with the Trump administration, including Kirkland & Ellis ; Latham & Watkins ; Skadden ; Simpson Thacher ; Paul Weiss ; Milbank ; Willkie Farr ; A&O Shearman ; and Cadwalader. Now we know.

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Above The Law

APRIL 14, 2025

The Biglaw Sorting Hat continues dividing firms between Gryffindor and Slytherin, with a handful of firms fighting back against White House attempts to undercut business through executive order or signing amicus briefs in defense of those firms, and an unfortunately larger segment welcoming the Death Eaters as liberators.

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Above The Law

APRIL 15, 2025

To put it bluntly, nine of the nations most profitable law firms cut deals with the administration in order to get off the presidents personal s**t list. These firms are: Paul Weiss, Skadden Arps, Willkie Farr, Milbank Tweed, Kirkland & Ellis, Latham & Watkins, Simpson Thacher, A&O Shearman, and Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft.

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Above The Law

APRIL 7, 2025

(Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) Given the Trump administrations focus on retribution, perhaps Willkie Farr correctly suspected it would soon be targeted with one of the likely unconstitutional Executive Orders that are making their way through Biglaw. Which is great, I guess. “We are seeing organizations stay quiet. .

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Above The Law

MAY 21, 2025

“We will call out these cowardly law firms in front of their peers for deciding their profits are more important than defending the Constitution,” a RAR representative told Above the Law. Here are some photos from the Rise and Resist protest against the nine orange shoe firms that put money over morals.

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Above The Law

APRIL 7, 2025

3 Milbank Reaches Deal With Trump as Divide Among Law Firms Deepens. law firm, Milbank , struck a deal on Wednesday with Donald Trump amid the U.S. president’s campaign against perceived enemies within the legal industry, while another law firm fought back in court against an executive order targeting its business.

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Above The Law

APRIL 8, 2025

The firm neither capitulated nor caved to the administration, he writes. What exactly did the firm promise? And, considering that the firm ensured its survival by making the deal, the benefits clearly outweighed the costs. Thus began a series of lively exchanges between us on Biglaw in the age of Trump. There is a number for X.

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