{"id":118097,"date":"2025-05-07T04:02:57","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T12:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/05\/07\/biglaw-firms-that-capitulated-to-trump-are-weak\/"},"modified":"2025-05-07T04:02:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T12:02:57","slug":"biglaw-firms-that-capitulated-to-trump-are-weak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/05\/07\/biglaw-firms-that-capitulated-to-trump-are-weak\/","title":{"rendered":"Biglaw Firms That Capitulated To Trump Are \u2018Weak\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

[The ruling shows] how weak the firms that capitulated were that they were not willing to fight even for two months for themselves [or] for the integrity of the judicial system.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 Jay Edelson<\/a>, founder and chair of Edelson P.C., in comments given to the National Law Journal<\/a>, on the summary judgment victory that Perkins Coie recently won by choosing to litigate against Donald Trump\u2019s unconstitutional executive order<\/a>, while nine other Biglaw firms chose to capitulate instead, signing pro bono payola deals with Trump<\/a> that they may come to regret.<\/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 Firms That Capitulated To Trump Are \u2018Weak\u2019<\/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

[The ruling shows] how weak the firms that capitulated were that they were not willing to fight even for two months for themselves [or] for the integrity of the judicial system.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 Jay Edelson<\/a>, founder and chair of Edelson P.C., in comments given to the National Law Journal<\/a>, on the summary judgment victory that Perkins Coie recently won by choosing to litigate against Donald Trump\u2019s unconstitutional executive order<\/a>, while nine other Biglaw firms chose to capitulate instead, signing pro bono payola deals with Trump<\/a> that they may come to regret.<\/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. [The ruling shows] how weak the firms that capitulated were that they were not willing to fight even for two months for themselves [or] for the integrity of the judicial system. \u2014 Jay Edelson, founder and chair of Edelson P.C., in comments given to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":118056,"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-118097","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\/05\/Staci-Zaretsky-Cui25d.jpeg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118097","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=118097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}