Law firm partners back Susman Godfrey in lawsuit over Trump executive order

[highplainsdem]

Source: Reuters

An association of more than 700 partners at major U.S. law firms submitted a court brief on Friday supporting Susman Godfrey in its federal lawsuit challenging U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order against the firm.

Trump's punitive orders targeting Susman and other law firms "threaten the legal profession, the judiciary, and the rule of law itself," the filing said.

The friend-of-the-court brief, filed in Susman's case in Washington, D.C., by the non-profit Law Firm Partners United, comes as some lawyers have split with their firms over the response to Trump's intensifying crackdown on the legal profession.

At least 110 individual law partners signed the brief. The filing said the association's more than 700 members, all partners at the 200 largest law firms in the US by revenue, were supporting Susman in their personal capacities, not on behalf of their firms.

-snip-

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/law-firm-partners-back-susman-godfrey-lawsuit-over-trump-executive-order-2025-04-25/

[Leghorn21]

1. YEAH BABY

FANTASTIC

[Blasphemer]

2. Excellent. nt

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. This makes me smile

The Susman firm is a great firm

[red dog 1]

4. K&R, but there's a pay wall to read the article

[EuterpeThelo]

5. I'm so happy!

It was two partners from my law firm who started this group after so many partners in BigLaw got cold feet about signing the name of their firms to the Perkins amicus brief! That wasn't an acceptable answer to them, so they went outside the established system and are now taking action in their own names.

I'm not privy to the group's plans because you have to be a partner in the AmLaw200 to join, but I have already told these two founders that if I can do anything to support the effort, I'm all in.