{"id":110931,"date":"2025-03-19T16:59:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T00:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/03\/19\/biglaw-struggling-to-deal-with-trump-chaos\/"},"modified":"2025-03-19T16:59:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T00:59:29","slug":"biglaw-struggling-to-deal-with-trump-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/03\/19\/biglaw-struggling-to-deal-with-trump-chaos\/","title":{"rendered":"Biglaw Struggling To Deal With Trump Chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/01\/donald-trump-GettyImages-1152627372.jpg?w=1080&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">(Photo by Win McNamee\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Trump administration continues its revenge tour against Biglaw, and Perkins Coie is fighting back. Through counsel at Williams &amp; Connolly, <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/03\/perkins-coie-drags-trump-administration-clear-to-hell-in-new-lawsuit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Perkins delivered a scorching takedown<\/a> of the administration\u2019s arbitrary retaliation against the firm, earning a partial TRO. Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/03\/trump-is-coming-after-biglaw-too-bad-theyre-a-bunch-of-pussies-just-like-republican-senators\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">most of Biglaw remains silent<\/a>. And if they aren\u2019t silent, they\u2019re <em>silently<\/em> deleting references to diversity, including a clumsy effort that <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/03\/biglaw-firm-scrubs-pronouns-from-attorney-signatures-without-telling-anyone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">autodeleted pronouns from email signatures<\/a>. And \u201cStop the Steal\u201d lawyer turned interim US Attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/03\/interim-dc-us-attorney-earns-first-professional-misconduct-complaint-on-the-new-job\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Ed Martin has his first ethics complaint<\/a> on the job he hasn\u2019t even really started.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/03\/biglaw-struggling-to-deal-with-trump-chaos\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Biglaw Struggling To Deal With Trump Chaos<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/01\/donald-trump-GettyImages-1152627372.jpg?w=1080&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">(Photo by Win McNamee\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Trump administration continues its revenge tour against Biglaw, and Perkins Coie is fighting back. Through counsel at Williams &amp; Connolly, <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/03\/perkins-coie-drags-trump-administration-clear-to-hell-in-new-lawsuit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Perkins delivered a scorching takedown<\/a> of the administration\u2019s arbitrary retaliation against the firm, earning a partial TRO. Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/03\/trump-is-coming-after-biglaw-too-bad-theyre-a-bunch-of-pussies-just-like-republican-senators\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">most of Biglaw remains silent<\/a>. And if they aren\u2019t silent, they\u2019re <em>silently<\/em> deleting references to diversity, including a clumsy effort that <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/03\/biglaw-firm-scrubs-pronouns-from-attorney-signatures-without-telling-anyone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">autodeleted pronouns from email signatures<\/a>. And \u201cStop the Steal\u201d lawyer turned interim US Attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/03\/interim-dc-us-attorney-earns-first-professional-misconduct-complaint-on-the-new-job\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Ed Martin has his first ethics complaint<\/a> on the job he hasn\u2019t even really started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Photo by Win McNamee\/Getty Images) The Trump administration continues its revenge tour against Biglaw, and Perkins Coie is fighting back. Through counsel at Williams &amp; Connolly, Perkins delivered a scorching takedown of the administration\u2019s arbitrary retaliation against the firm, earning a partial TRO. Meanwhile, most of Biglaw remains silent. And if they aren\u2019t silent, they\u2019re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":110932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/donald-trump-GettyImages-1152627372-RG8lmq.jpeg?fit=1024%2C683&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}