Democrats Investigating Law Firms Over Work for Trump’s Commerce Dept.

In letters to the firms, the lawmakers suggested “that the administration’s coercion of your law firm may be ongoing and escalating.”

News
Two Big Law Firms Said to Be Doing Free Work for Trump Administration

After making deals with the president to avoid punitive executive orders, Paul Weiss and Kirkland & Ellis are helping the Commerce Department.

News
Law Firms That Settled With Trump Are Pressed to Help on Trade Deals

Boris Epshteyn, a personal lawyer for President Trump, connected two firms — Kirkland & Ellis and Skadden Arps — to the Commerce Department.

News
Trump Allies Look to Benefit From Pro Bono Promises by Elite Law Firms

Veterans, in particular, are seeking free legal work from firms that cut deals with the White House like Skadden, Kirkland & Ellis and Paul Weiss.

News
Above the Law Is Where Lawyers Mock Firms Bowing to Trump

Above the Law, a legal industry website with a long history of skewering the nation’s most elite firms, has found a moment and plenty of inside tipsters.

News
Five More Big Law Firms Reach Deals With Trump

Kirkland & Ellis, Latham & Watkins, A&O Shearman, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft agreed to do free legal work on causes the White House supports.

News
Trump Close to Winning Concessions From More Law Firms

Four or five firms could soon agree to deals that would be unveiled as a package, in an escalation of the president’s crackdown on an industry that has drawn his ire.

News