Posted on 04/12/2025 9:03:29 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
President Donald Trump announced deals Friday with five law firms that will allow them to avoid the prospect of punishing executive orders and require them to together provide hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of free legal services for causes his administration says it supports.
The resolutions reflect the Republican president's continued success in bending prominent law firms to his will as they seek to cut deals with his administration to avoid being targeted by White House sanctions like the ones confronting others in the legal community.
The White House said that the firms of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Allen Overy Shearman Sterling US LLP, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, and Latham & Watkins LLP would each provide $125 million in free legal work for causes including veterans affairs and combatting antisemitism. As part of the agreement, the administration agreed to withdraw letters from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission demanding information about whether the firms were engaged in discriminatory hiring practices.
In a separate deal also announced Friday, Trump said that the firm of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft would agree to dedicate $100 million in pro bono services. The agreements also required the firms to disavow any "illegal" diversity, equity, and inclusion considerations in their hiring and to agree to accept clients regardless without regard to political beliefs.
The executive committee of Kirkland & Ellis told the firm Friday that the resolution would help it resolve the EEOC investigation and avert an executive order and that it would continue to operate with the "non-partisan basis" and "merit-based philosophy that is and has always been the essence" of the firm.
"It is also consistent with the values that underpin our firm and cement us together, including our culture that prioritizes ability and opportunity, not politics," the committee wrote in an email obtained by The Associated Press.
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BTTT
I wish we had a President who knew how to win.
End sarcasm for the humor impaired.
Translation; Five more law firms know yet have no enforceable right to do business with the Trump administration for the next four years.
NOT tired of W.I.N.N.I.N.G.! Or is that destroying the dumbocracy? Oh well.
You KNOW they are just going to cheese out of any of the punishment aspects of this.
Makes me sick.
The Art of the deal
I agree with you. I wrote that in reply to another one of these articles a while back.
I wouldn’t trust that they will do their best for pro bono, especially if it’s a case matter or client they don’t agree with.
It’s nice to be the king!
Winning and winning and winning 👏 !
They were following the law/executive orders at the time, so obviously no one is going to jail or getting fined. Making them do work for free for causes they abhor is as good as it gets.
somebody needs to drill down on Covington and Burley.....
I agree completely. I don't get, "do pro bono" for us and you can then continue business as usual, i.e., continue grifting off govt contracts and continue supporting and defending the swamp! Pro bono my rear end!!
At first I wanted justice for the hundreds of Deep State enemies.
Today I’ll settle for vengeance. I wan’t them ruined and impoverished as they tried to do to PDJT and did to so many of his supporters.
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