Trump doesn’t keep his word. Law firms were foolish and wrong to make a deal with him.
Amazing reporting here on how things have backfired on the capitulating law firms and their enabler. http://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/…
— George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) 2025-06-02T15:07:34.383Z
Trump targeted big law firms' DEI programs, and many capitulated. But Microsoft and Morgan Stanley stand firm on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI or by any other name). Microsoft and Morgan Stanley are taking their $3.62 trillion of market cap to law firms that align with their values.
— Nancy Levine Stearns 🌎 (@nancylevinestearns.bsky.social) 2025-06-02T14:00:18.621Z
Turns out that many clients and employees don't want to work with firms that cower in the face of authoritarianism. Gift link. http://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/…
— Heidi Kitrosser (@heidikitrosser.bsky.social) 2025-06-02T02:09:16.050Z
While some law firms are cowering to Trump’s bullying and coercion, others are fighting back — and they’re winning.
I salute the firms and institutions that refuse to bend the knee to Trump’s lawlessness. And shame on those who cave in to political blackmail.
— Senator Chris Van Hollen (@vanhollen.senate.gov) 2025-05-28T22:11:54.039Z
Rachel Cohen on resigning from Skadden: I would say to people: We’re going to end up staffed on financings to help prison corporations expand the Guantánamo Bay camp.Every single person I said that to responded, “Oh, don’t say that.” Not one person said, “No, we won’t.” A few even said, “Yes.”
— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) 2025-05-23T22:32:49.835Z
Glad to see this—Paul Weiss deserves to go extinct after its cowardly capitulation to Trump. Every partner and associate with any integrity should flee ASAP. The firm is irredeemable. http://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/b…
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) 2025-05-23T22:04:14.051Z
It is easy to forget that when Paul Weiss and the other law firms that capitulated to Trump cut their deals they thought they would be viewed as savvy dealmakers. Now they look like craven fools and gutless cowards.
— Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) 2025-05-29T01:00:24.120Z
American Bar Association files suit to halt government intimidation of lawyers and law firms http://www.americanbar.org/news/abanews…
— Catherine Rampell (@crampell.bsky.social) 2025-06-16T20:48:41.577Z
Sad! 