{"id":119344,"date":"2025-05-16T13:02:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T21:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/05\/16\/stats-of-the-week-get-up-stand-up\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T13:02:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T21:02:49","slug":"stats-of-the-week-get-up-stand-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/05\/16\/stats-of-the-week-get-up-stand-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Stat(s) Of The Week: Get Up, Stand Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/stat-of-the-week-image.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-110065\" title=\"\"><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>American lawyers overwhelmingly oppose the agreements some major law firms have struck in response to the Trump administration\u2019s executive actions, with more than 90% of respondents to a new Above the Law survey agreeing that such deals involve \u201cgiving in to extortion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ATL surveyed its readers last month, receiving responses from more than 850 lawyers, law students, professors, judges, and concerned citizens. Many who responded work at firms targeted by the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, 91% of respondents believe that law firms that \u201cmake agreements with the administration are giving in to extortion,\u201d while 88% of in-house counsel say they\u2019re less likely to engage with a firm that caves to the administration\u2019s threats.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for the full results of the Biglaw Intimidation Survey, coming soon.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, you can track what all of the Am Law 200 firms are doing \u2014 or not doing \u2014 in the face of Trump\u2019s attacks on the legal industry in ATL\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/04\/biglaw-is-under-attack-heres-what-the-firms-are-doing-about-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"> Biglaw Spine Index<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/05\/stats-of-the-week-get-up-stand-up\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stat(s) Of The Week: Get Up, Stand Up<\/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 size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/stat-of-the-week-image.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-110065\" title=\"\"><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>American lawyers overwhelmingly oppose the agreements some major law firms have struck in response to the Trump administration\u2019s executive actions, with more than 90% of respondents to a new Above the Law survey agreeing that such deals involve \u201cgiving in to extortion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ATL surveyed its readers last month, receiving responses from more than 850 lawyers, law students, professors, judges, and concerned citizens. Many who responded work at firms targeted by the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, 91% of respondents believe that law firms that \u201cmake agreements with the administration are giving in to extortion,\u201d while 88% of in-house counsel say they\u2019re less likely to engage with a firm that caves to the administration\u2019s threats.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for the full results of the Biglaw Intimidation Survey, coming soon.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, you can track what all of the Am Law 200 firms are doing \u2014 or not doing \u2014 in the face of Trump\u2019s attacks on the legal industry in ATL\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/04\/biglaw-is-under-attack-heres-what-the-firms-are-doing-about-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"> Biglaw Spine Index<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American lawyers overwhelmingly oppose the agreements some major law firms have struck in response to the Trump administration\u2019s executive actions, with more than 90% of respondents to a new Above the Law survey agreeing that such deals involve \u201cgiving in to extortion.\u201d ATL surveyed its readers last month, receiving responses from more than 850 lawyers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":119329,"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-119344","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\/stat-of-the-week-image-dWcMau.jpeg?fit=300%2C225&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119344","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=119344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}