{"id":132175,"date":"2025-08-28T12:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T20:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/?p=132175"},"modified":"2025-08-28T12:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T20:30:08","slug":"does-free-law-firm-work-for-trump-raise-legal-concerns-an-obscure-federal-statute-offers-guidance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/08\/28\/does-free-law-firm-work-for-trump-raise-legal-concerns-an-obscure-federal-statute-offers-guidance\/","title":{"rendered":"Does ‘Free’ Law Firm Work for Trump Raise Legal Concerns? An Obscure Federal Statute Offers Guidance"},"content":{"rendered":"

If law firms are providing free legal services to government agencies as part of their deals with Trump, it could implicate a federal statute, with federal officials\u2014but not the law firms\u2014facing repercussions, several legal observers raised.<\/p>\n

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If law firms are providing free legal services to government agencies as part of their deals with Trump, it could implicate a federal statute, with federal officials\u2014but not the law firms\u2014facing repercussions, several legal observers raised.<\/p>\n

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If law firms are providing free legal services to government agencies as part of their deals with Trump, it could implicate a federal statute, with federal officials\u2014but not the law firms\u2014facing repercussions, several legal observers raised. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If law firms are providing free legal services to government agencies as part of their deals with Trump, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":132176,"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":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/legal-news-IX8N21.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132175","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=132175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132205,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132175\/revisions\/132205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}