{"id":113660,"date":"2025-04-05T15:43:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T23:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/04\/05\/is-it-really-unfair-to-criticize-biglaw-firms-that-cut-deals-with-the-trump-administration\/"},"modified":"2025-04-05T15:43:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T23:43:47","slug":"is-it-really-unfair-to-criticize-biglaw-firms-that-cut-deals-with-the-trump-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/04\/05\/is-it-really-unfair-to-criticize-biglaw-firms-that-cut-deals-with-the-trump-administration\/","title":{"rendered":"Is It Really \u2018Unfair To Criticize\u2019 Biglaw Firms That Cut Deals With The Trump Administration?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know if I would do the same thing, but it is unfair to criticize their decisions. It was well within the bounds of a reasonable solution. When you have a potential death alternative, how do you criticize someone for choosing to live, even if it is painful?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 An Am Law 200 chair, in anonymous comments given to Law.com<\/a>, on the Biglaw firms that made deals with Donald Trump to head off or make his likely unconstitutional executive orders go away. Thus far,\u00a0Paul Weiss<\/a>,\u00a0Skadden<\/a>,\u00a0Willkie<\/a>, and\u00a0Milbank<\/a>\u00a0have made deals with\u00a0the Trump to get out from under or avoid his harmful executive orders (with Kirkland<\/a> reportedly in talks to strike a deal), while\u00a0Perkins Coie<\/a>,\u00a0Jenner & Block<\/a>, and\u00a0WilmerHale<\/a>\u00a0have filed suit to defend their firms and the rule of law. The chair went on to say that he wouldn\u2019t criticize the three firms that chose to litigate against the Trump administration, noting, \u201cThese things are complicated, and you have to deal with your own internal workforce.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Is It Really \u2018Unfair To Criticize\u2019 Biglaw Firms That Cut Deals With The Trump Administration?<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know if I would do the same thing, but it is unfair to criticize their decisions. It was well within the bounds of a reasonable solution. When you have a potential death alternative, how do you criticize someone for choosing to live, even if it is painful?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 An Am Law 200 chair, in anonymous comments given to Law.com<\/a>, on the Biglaw firms that made deals with Donald Trump to head off or make his likely unconstitutional executive orders go away. Thus far,\u00a0Paul Weiss<\/a>,\u00a0Skadden<\/a>,\u00a0Willkie<\/a>, and\u00a0Milbank<\/a>\u00a0have made deals with\u00a0the Trump to get out from under or avoid his harmful executive orders (with Kirkland<\/a> reportedly in talks to strike a deal), while\u00a0Perkins Coie<\/a>,\u00a0Jenner & Block<\/a>, and\u00a0WilmerHale<\/a>\u00a0have filed suit to defend their firms and the rule of law. The chair went on to say that he wouldn\u2019t criticize the three firms that chose to litigate against the Trump administration, noting, \u201cThese things are complicated, and you have to deal with your own internal workforce.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. I don\u2019t know if I would do the same thing, but it is unfair to criticize their decisions. It was well within the bounds of a reasonable solution. When you have a potential death alternative, how do you criticize someone for choosing to live, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":113525,"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-113660","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\/04\/Staci-Zaretsky-NV2l4R.jpeg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113660","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=113660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}