Trump says five more law firms agree to pro bono work to avoid punitive executive orders

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Donald Trump said on Friday that five major law firms reached agreements to together provide his administration $600m in pro bono legal work, among other terms, to avoid executive orders punishing them, a significant capitulation to the president as he attacks the legal profession.

The five firms – Kirkland & Ellis, Latham & Watkins, Allen Overy Shearman Sterling, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, and Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft – are among the most prestigious and recognized firms in the US.

Trump’s announcement on Friday on Truth Social means he has secured a total of $940m in pro bono work from some of the most powerful law firms in the US.

The orders come as Trump’s attack on the legal profession has divided the most prestigious firms in the US. More than 500 firms signed an amicus brief last week in support of a legal challenge to executive orders punishing the firm Perkins Coie. But many of the country’s biggest firms – including those that reached agreements announced on Friday – were conspicuously absent.

More : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/11/trump-law-firms-pro-bono-deal

[Autumn]

1. Who are they representing? Do he and his fucking spawn need a lot of lawyers in the future?

[Mossfern]

2. Institutionalized extortion!

[GreenWave]

3. Why do these chickenshits owe him a billion dollars???

[IcyPeas]

4. Imagine all these lawyers and associates and paralegals that will be forced

to do this work? How degrading.

Defense attorneys often have to represent despicable clients but they choose to do that work plus they get paid.

This will probably require regular corporate attorneys to represent this despicable man/administration and do it for free..... and to mitigate (lie) the crimes in order to "defend" him. It's despicable.

It's just despicable.

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5. WTF is he 'punishing' them for?

and why wouldn't they fight him in court?