Is Skadden About To Feel The Wrath Of The Trump Administration? - Above the Law

Is Skadden About To Feel The Wrath Of The Trump Administration? - Above the Law

(Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images for TIME) Things are getting real terrifying in Biglaw. The might and weight of the executive branch is coming down hard on the industry — Covington and Perkins Coie are in the midst of their own existential battle with the Trump administration and Paul Weiss had to embarrass itself to get in the good graces of Donald Trump. But the fight is far from over. Trump recently signed another Executive Order, Preventin…

Defending the rule of law: Bay Area attorneys pressed to sign letter pushing back on Trump - Local News Matters

MORE THAN A THOUSAND associate lawyers at the nation’s most powerful and prestigious law firms are telling their bosses that it is time to stand up and be counted.As of Monday morning, 1,390 lawyers had joined an open letter to the leaders of their respective law firms calling on them to push back against recent attacks on the legal profession by President Donald Trump’s administration.More than a third of the signers work at law firms based, or…

Former Skadden associate says ABA inspired her letter asking BigLaw to push back on White House executive orders