{"id":114582,"date":"2025-04-11T16:02:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T00:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/04\/11\/biglaws-defining-moment-is-here-will-your-firm-bow-to-trump-or-fight-it-out-in-court\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T16:02:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T00:02:48","slug":"biglaws-defining-moment-is-here-will-your-firm-bow-to-trump-or-fight-it-out-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/04\/11\/biglaws-defining-moment-is-here-will-your-firm-bow-to-trump-or-fight-it-out-in-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Biglaw\u2019s Defining Moment Is Here: Will Your Firm Bow To Trump Or Fight It Out In Court?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

This moment will define Biglaw for at least the coming year, if not longer. Are firms going to lose clients no matter what they do? How do firms stay in business? It\u2019s just not a simple issue. It\u2019s very, very difficult when you are in a fight, and the person on the other side holds the cards, the power and the money. There are very real costs for the individual lawyers here and the firms.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 Jeffrey A. Lowe, market president of CenterPeak, a legal placement firm, in comments given to the ABA Journal<\/a>, on how Biglaw firms are responding<\/a> to President Donald Trump\u2019s unprecedented retaliatory executive orders targeting law firms, whether by fighting them in court or pledging tens of millions of dollars in pro bono payola to make them go away. Lowe thinks the divide will continue to grow \u201cbetween lawyers who want their firms to take a stand against the Trump administration and lawyers who recognize that, while they would like to do that, there\u2019s the practical reality of running a multibillion-dollar business.\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 Biglaw\u2019s Defining Moment Is Here: Will Your Firm Bow To Trump Or Fight It Out In Court?<\/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

This moment will define Biglaw for at least the coming year, if not longer. Are firms going to lose clients no matter what they do? How do firms stay in business? It\u2019s just not a simple issue. It\u2019s very, very difficult when you are in a fight, and the person on the other side holds the cards, the power and the money. There are very real costs for the individual lawyers here and the firms.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 Jeffrey A. Lowe, market president of CenterPeak, a legal placement firm, in comments given to the ABA Journal<\/a>, on how Biglaw firms are responding<\/a> to President Donald Trump\u2019s unprecedented retaliatory executive orders targeting law firms, whether by fighting them in court or pledging tens of millions of dollars in pro bono payola to make them go away. Lowe thinks the divide will continue to grow \u201cbetween lawyers who want their firms to take a stand against the Trump administration and lawyers who recognize that, while they would like to do that, there\u2019s the practical reality of running a multibillion-dollar business.\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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. This moment will define Biglaw for at least the coming year, if not longer. Are firms going to lose clients no matter what they do? How do firms stay in business? It\u2019s just not a simple issue. It\u2019s very, very difficult when you are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":114547,"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-114582","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-7XBwDf.jpeg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114582","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=114582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}