{"id":123877,"date":"2025-06-23T14:02:32","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T22:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/06\/23\/biglaw-firms-that-capitulated-to-trump-reveal-deep-divide-between-corporate-lawyers-and-litigators\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T14:02:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T22:02:32","slug":"biglaw-firms-that-capitulated-to-trump-reveal-deep-divide-between-corporate-lawyers-and-litigators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/06\/23\/biglaw-firms-that-capitulated-to-trump-reveal-deep-divide-between-corporate-lawyers-and-litigators\/","title":{"rendered":"Biglaw Firms That Capitulated To Trump Reveal Deep Divide Between Corporate Lawyers And Litigators"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Corporate lawyers in many of the top firms have more power when it comes to administrative decisions because they generate more revenue than most litigators. As a result, they may have played a bigger role in the decision to cooperate with the administration, leaving many litigators disgruntled to the point of looking for opportunities to leave the firm.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 <\/i>Rebecca Roiphe<\/a>, a legal ethics professor at New York Law School, in comments given to the American Lawyer<\/a>, on the growing divide between corporate and litigation partners at the Biglaw firms that made pro bono payola deals<\/a> with the Trump administration. A D.C. Biglaw partner who spoke anonymously with Am Law seemed to agree with Roiphe, saying, \u201cThe corporate lawyers have been driving the [Trump deals], to the great displeasure of many, if not most or all, of the litigators.\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 Firms That Capitulated To Trump Reveal Deep Divide Between Corporate Lawyers And Litigators<\/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

Corporate lawyers in many of the top firms have more power when it comes to administrative decisions because they generate more revenue than most litigators. As a result, they may have played a bigger role in the decision to cooperate with the administration, leaving many litigators disgruntled to the point of looking for opportunities to leave the firm.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 <\/i>Rebecca Roiphe<\/a>, a legal ethics professor at New York Law School, in comments given to the American Lawyer<\/a>, on the growing divide between corporate and litigation partners at the Biglaw firms that made pro bono payola deals<\/a> with the Trump administration. A D.C. Biglaw partner who spoke anonymously with Am Law seemed to agree with Roiphe, saying, \u201cThe corporate lawyers have been driving the [Trump deals], to the great displeasure of many, if not most or all, of the litigators.\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. Corporate lawyers in many of the top firms have more power when it comes to administrative decisions because they generate more revenue than most litigators. As a result, they may have played a bigger role in the decision to cooperate with the administration, leaving […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":123878,"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-123877","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-hkyJT8.jpeg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123877","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=123877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}