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President Donald Trump said Friday that Skadden, one major firm, agreed to provide $100 million-worth of free legal work to causes that he and the firm support.
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A U.S. judge on Friday said he is inclined to temporarily block Republican President Donald Trump's administration from enforcing his order targeting prominent Washington law firm WilmerHale over its...
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The executive order, which mirrored other recent directives targeting big law firms, asked federal agencies to suspend security clearances and review or terminate government contracts with the firms ...
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Two of the nation’s largest law firms are taking drastically different approaches to being targeted by President Donald Trump: acceptance and defiance.
Trump’s executive order against the firm suspended security clearances for employees at Perkins Coie and called for terminating any existing government contracts with the firm a
Roughly 70 percent of Harvard Law School’s professors accused the federal government of exacting retribution on lawyers and law firms for representing clients opposed by President Donald Trump in a Saturday night letter to the school’s student body.
The move to disqualify the judge was emblematic of the Trump administration’s broader attacks on the federal judiciary, which in recent weeks has pushed back against executive actions.
A federal judge in Washington on Wednesday rejected the Justice Department’s move to disqualify her from a suit over President Donald Trump’s executive order against law firm Perkins Coie.
The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday moved to disqualify U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell from overseeing a case involving President