Wake Up Call: Sullivan & Cromwell Co-Chair Cozies Up to Trump
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President Donald Trump’s offensive against Big Law has moved beyond retribution, as firms with no past adversarial relationship with him feel pressure to appease.
Five of the world’s largest law firms made deals with Donald Trump to avoid punitive executive orders, as the president has now secured $940 million in free legal services.
A Simpson Thacher & Bartlett associate quit his job after the law firm reached a deal with President Donald Trump to provide $125 million in legal work.
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP holds adverse interests to Forever 21 Inc.'s US retail operator and shouldn’t be permitted to represent the company in bankruptcy, the Justice Department’s bankruptcy division said.
Susman Godfrey is the latest major law firm to take the Trump administration to court over an executive order aimed at its attorneys.
Welcome to Bloomberg Law’s Wake Up Call, a daily rundown of the top news for lawyers, law firms, and in-house counsel.
The Trump administration challenged the basis for returning a wrongly deported Maryland man from a notorious El Salvador prison, telling a federal judge that he’s a member of the MS-13 gang and so not eligible to come back to the US.
The American Alliance for Equal Rights is suing the American Bar Association over a diversity scholarship.
President Donald Trump’s offensive against Big Law has moved beyond retribution, as firms with no past adversarial relationship with him feel pressure to appease.
A Trump administration lawyer refused to tell a judge what the government is doing to bring back a Maryland man wrongly deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador.
Susman Godfrey is the latest major law firm to take the Trump administration to court over an executive order aimed at its attorneys.
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Kirkland & Ellis retained its crown as Big Law’s top mergers and acquisitions adviser in 2024, nabbing several of the largest transactions of the year.
Kirkland & Ellis retained its crown as Big Law’s top mergers and acquisitions adviser in 2024, nabbing several of the largest transactions of the year.
On May 28, 2012, Dewey & LeBoeuf, the product of a merger between two storied New York law firms, filed for bankruptcy. For the first time, Dewey's former chair Steven Davis opens up about the years, months, and weeks leading to his firm's collapse, the decisions he made and, looking back, whether he would have done anything differently.
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President Donald Trump’s offensive against Big Law has moved beyond retribution, as firms with no past adversarial relationship with him feel pressure to appease.
Binance executives met with officials from the Treasury Department in March to discuss a loosening of US oversight on it, the Wall Street Journal
Up 9.5% one day, down 3.5% the next: Investors expect those kind of oscillations from equity markets in emerging economies or the notoriously turbulent
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At least three of the world’s largest law firms are discussing a joint deal with the Trump administration to avoid punitive executive orders.
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