{"id":121451,"date":"2025-06-02T13:02:42","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T21:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/06\/02\/biglaws-best-now-viewed-as-craven-fools-thanks-to-deals-with-trump\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T13:02:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T21:02:42","slug":"biglaws-best-now-viewed-as-craven-fools-thanks-to-deals-with-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/06\/02\/biglaws-best-now-viewed-as-craven-fools-thanks-to-deals-with-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Biglaw\u2019s Best Now Viewed As \u2018Craven Fools\u2019 Thanks To Deals With Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

It is easy to forget that when Paul Weiss and the other law firms that capitulated to Trump cut their deals, they thought they would be viewed as savvy dealmakers. Now they look like craven fools and gutless cowards.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 Marc Elias<\/a>, a former partner at Perkins Coie who left to launch his own law firm in 2021, commenting<\/a> on the nine firms that bent a knee to Donald Trump<\/a>, in the wake of three of the president\u2019s executive orders targeting law firms Perkins Coie<\/a>, Jenner & Block<\/a>, and WilmerHale<\/a> being found unconstitutional. In an interview with MSNBC<\/a>, Elias went on to say that \u201crather than look like savvy businessmen and women, they now look like naive rubes\u201d and that \u201c[t]he business case for this turned out to be a pretty crappy one.\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 Best Now Viewed As \u2018Craven Fools\u2019 Thanks To Deals With Trump<\/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

It is easy to forget that when Paul Weiss and the other law firms that capitulated to Trump cut their deals, they thought they would be viewed as savvy dealmakers. Now they look like craven fools and gutless cowards.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 Marc Elias<\/a>, a former partner at Perkins Coie who left to launch his own law firm in 2021, commenting<\/a> on the nine firms that bent a knee to Donald Trump<\/a>, in the wake of three of the president\u2019s executive orders targeting law firms Perkins Coie<\/a>, Jenner & Block<\/a>, and WilmerHale<\/a> being found unconstitutional. In an interview with MSNBC<\/a>, Elias went on to say that \u201crather than look like savvy businessmen and women, they now look like naive rubes\u201d and that \u201c[t]he business case for this turned out to be a pretty crappy one.\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. It is easy to forget that when Paul Weiss and the other law firms that capitulated to Trump cut their deals, they thought they would be viewed as savvy dealmakers. Now they look like craven fools and gutless cowards. \u2014 Marc Elias, a former […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":121444,"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-121451","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\/06\/Staci-Zaretsky-llywUA.jpeg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121451","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=121451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}