{"id":119782,"date":"2025-05-20T16:25:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T00:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/05\/20\/billionaire-says-biglaw-firms-that-brokered-deals-with-trump-are-persona-non-grata\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T16:25:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T00:25:35","slug":"billionaire-says-biglaw-firms-that-brokered-deals-with-trump-are-persona-non-grata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/05\/20\/billionaire-says-biglaw-firms-that-brokered-deals-with-trump-are-persona-non-grata\/","title":{"rendered":"Billionaire Says Biglaw Firms That Brokered Deals With Trump Are Persona Non Grata"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

I would never employ one of those law firms that did that, that essentially folded under these circumstances<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Billionaire Barry Diller<\/a>, in comments given to Bloomberg News<\/a> correspondent David Gura, concerning the nine Biglaw firms that have cut deals with the Trump administration, including Kirkland & Ellis<\/a>; Latham & Watkins<\/a>; Skadden<\/a>; Simpson Thacher<\/a>; Paul Weiss<\/a>; Milbank<\/a>; Willkie Farr<\/a>; A&O Shearman<\/a>; and Cadwalader<\/a>. \u201cUnequivocally?\u201d Gura asked, as a follow-up. \u201cAbsolutely,\u201d Diller said. <\/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<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

I would never employ one of those law firms that did that, that essentially folded under these circumstances<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Billionaire Barry Diller<\/a>, in comments given to Bloomberg News<\/a> correspondent David Gura, concerning the nine Biglaw firms that have cut deals with the Trump administration, including Kirkland & Ellis<\/a>; Latham & Watkins<\/a>; Skadden<\/a>; Simpson Thacher<\/a>; Paul Weiss<\/a>; Milbank<\/a>; Willkie Farr<\/a>; A&O Shearman<\/a>; and Cadwalader<\/a>. \u201cUnequivocally?\u201d Gura asked, as a follow-up. \u201cAbsolutely,\u201d Diller said. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"Staci
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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. I would never employ one of those law firms that did that, that essentially folded under these circumstances. \u2014 Billionaire Barry Diller, in comments given to Bloomberg News correspondent David Gura, concerning the nine Biglaw firms that have cut deals with the Trump administration, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"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-119782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119782","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=119782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}