Law firms are striking deals with President Trump to avoid getting hit with punitive executive orders, pledging hundreds of millions of dollars combined in pro bono legal work.
In this quickly changing landscape, even the biggest law firm in the country, Kirkland & Ellis, is talking with the White House about a similar agreement.
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The details of how these deals will work in practice are scant to nonexistent. How will the legal work be tracked? What qualifies as a conservative client? Can the White House reject certain clients as not conservative enough? And does this mean these firms will now turn away liberal-leaning pro bono clients?
On today’s episode of our podcast, On The Merits, Bloomberg Law reporters Justin Henry and Meghan Tribe dig into the questions surrounding these law firm deals and ask whether this ambiguity is by design. They also talk about what it means that a firm as big as Kirkland is now choosing to negotiate with the White House rather than fight it in court.
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