Big Law remains silent, but some at smaller firms are raising their voices. “I am concerned about a government where one person is an authoritarian figure and Congress is silent and the courts are marginalized or threatened with impeachment when they rule on the lawfulness of government action,” said Keker Van Nest & Peters partner Elliot Peters.
President Donald Trump is going after the law firm world over alleged abuses of the legal system, but his White House memo from Friday, titled “Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court,” has prompted some leaders of prominent litigation boutiques to push back, even as Big Law remains silent.
The memo to U.S. attorney general Pam Bondi and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem highlights alleged misconduct by lawyers and specific law firms that the administration says “threatens our national security, homeland security, public safety, or election integrity.”
