Big Law Firms Bowed to Trump. A Corps of ‘Little Guys’ Jumped in to Fight Him.

Solo practitioners, former government litigators and small law offices stepped up to help challenge the Trump administration’s agenda in court after the White House sought to punish many big firms.

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Trump Appeals Ruling Blocking Executive Order Against Perkins Coie

The administration appears to have decided to press forward with its fight against top law firms despite numerous defeats.

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Paul Weiss Loses Another Prominent Lawyer in Wake of Trump Deal

Damian Williams joined Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison in January shortly after stepping down as one of the nation’s top federal prosecutors. He is taking a job with Jenner & Block.

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Trump’s Order Targeting Jenner & Block Was Unconstitutional, Judge Rules

The decision was nearly identical to another involving the law firm Perkins Coie. Judges in both cases found the orders coercive.

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Law Firms Fighting Back Against Trump Report Security Clearance Suspensions

WilmerHale and Jenner & Block pleaded with the courts to intervene as the Justice Department moved to implement President Trump’s orders targeting their business.

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Trump’s Order Targeting Law Firm Perkins Coie Is Unconstitutional, Judge Rules

The decision marked the first time a federal judge permanently blocked the Trump administration from enforcing an order to punish law firms he opposes politically.

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Microsoft Drops Simpson Thacher & Bartlett Law Firm

The tech giant instead engaged a firm that is fighting the president’s executive orders, Jenner & Block, in a sign that those firms can still attract clients.

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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.

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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.

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Justice Dept. Criticizes Another Federal Judge for Blocking a Trump Executive Order

Attorney General Pam Bondi relied on an increasingly common assertion: that the judge was “unelected” and denying the will of voters who put the president in office.

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