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October 14, 2025
Matthew Wollin
The Lawyers Who Gave Up Big Money to Fight Trump
The president’s attacks on Big Law might have accidentally done what nothing else could: make highly paid attorneys stand up for what they believe in.
May 28, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Judge Uses 26 Exclamation Points to Strike Down Trump’s Terrible Order
A judge struck down Donald Trump’s order targeting certain law firms.
May 6, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump’s Law Firm Deals Aren’t Working Out How He Hoped
Law firms that caved to Donald Trump are revealing they have ways to wriggle out of the deals.
May 6, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump’s Own Words Come Back to Bite Him in Brutal Ruling
Judge Beryl Howell used Donald Trump’s own words against him when striking down his suit.
April 24, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Firms That Caved to Trump Are Helping Him Break the Law, Dems Warn
Multiple law firms have preemptively bent the knee to Donald Trump and agreed to provide him with free legal services.
April 11, 2025
Marin Scotten
Trump Brags as Even More Law Firms Crumble to His Every Whim
Trump announced a series of astonishing deals with law firms worth $600 million.
April 2, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump Notches Huge Win as Yet Another Law Firm Caves
Law firms are lining up to bow to Donald Trump.
April 2, 2025
Hafiz Rashid
Doug Emhoff’s Law Firm Bends the Knee to Trump
Willkie Farr & Gallagher, the law firm that employs the former second gentleman, is the latest to strike a deal with the Trump administration.
March 28, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump Celebrates as Another Law Firm Bends the Knee
Donald Trump is targeting law firms that have represented people or causes he doesn’t like.
March 28, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump Hit With Brutal Double Whammy of Lawsuits in an Hour
Law firms that Donald Trump has targeted are fighting back.
March 21, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Lawyer Issues Grim Warning After Another Law Firm Caves to Trump
Rachel Cohen had previously criticized Donald Trump for attacking law firms.
October 18, 2021
Casey Michel
American Law Firms Are Enabling Foreign Kleptocrats
Despite what you may have heard, the Pandora Papers did not let the United States off the hook for facilitating global corruption.
August 9, 2013
Noam Scheiber
The Crisis at Washington's Ultimate Power Firm
Patton, Boggs and the End of Big Law
July 29, 2013
Noam Scheiber
Yes, Big Law Really is Dying
Dear Lawyer: It's Not You, It's Your Profession
July 25, 2013
Marc Tracy
What Happens to Pregnant Women at a Big Law Firm
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