Trump is going after Big Law

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How is this legal? This is retaliatory and discriminatory based on viewpoint.

This guy and Musk to ruin our country. It’s looking almost treasonous.

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It's also weird to declare a hiring freeze, slash your budget to the point of dysfunction, and then threaten not to hire people. You already said you weren't hiring!

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Anonymous wrote:Bad idea for Trump to go after big law. These are people who have the means to fight him — and the judges, all the way up to the Supreme Court I bet, are way more likely to protect the lawyers aka their profession and all of their big law friends and old classmates.

+1. I predict by America’s 250th birthday next year the theme everywhere will be “Down with the King!” and people will have had enough of this crap. The halfway normal and quasi-establishment people who helped Trump back to power will have had enough. Pissing off lawyers everywhere is a bad idea.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm no expert, but, uh, free speech anyone?

I mean they can’t be officially successful at this kind of hiring practice but it will certainly have a chilling effect, to a degree. It will also embolden some. As I said in my other post, they are also threatening law schools and demanding they change their curriculums or they will ban any grad from that school. Not that many new grads think they’ll get hired by the govt anytime soon anyway but that’s a scary threat for a student or new lawyer.

Why would a law student want to work for this government right now.

Well, there are probably quite a few who wanted government service jobs about 4 months ago — who now will have to rethink their career plans.

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Anonymous wrote:How is this legal? This is retaliatory and discriminatory based on viewpoint.

This guy and Musk to ruin our country. It’s looking almost treasonous.

It’s also based on race. Many of us remember when that was openly commonplace. So does 78 year old Trump. So does South African Musk.

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Anonymous wrote:They’re also threatening law schools and sending letters saying they won’t hire a grad from a law school that has any sort of “inclusion” in its curriculum. So like, all good law schools.

Where did you get this? Link?

Also, let's face it, who from a good law school would want to work for Trumputin's government?

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Anonymous wrote:I am a lawyer with no love of Big Law at all (never worked in it, never will) but this is scary. It's purely motivated by politics.

He's ordered the EEOC to investigate these firms for violations of the Civil Rights Act.

The executive order he signed today singles out Perkins and specifies it is doing so because of it's involvement with the Steele Dossier.

This is political retribution and nothing else.

I hope they sue him into oblivion. Put all the big brains in these firms that usually spend their time helping big corporations be .05% more profitable and instead do something actually useful here.

The thing is, he's getting rid of all the competent lawyers in the DOJ and replacing them with graduates of Cooley. I don't think the new "DOJ" stands a chance against the former feds, who are now joining these law firms. You're not going to win a gunfight if you're shooting blanks.

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Anonymous wrote:They’re also threatening law schools and sending letters saying they won’t hire a grad from a law school that has any sort of “inclusion” in its curriculum. So like, all good law schools.

Where did you get this? Link?

Also, let's face it, who from a good law school would want to work for Trumputin's government?

The dean’s response is *chef’s kiss.”
https://www.rawstory.com/ed-martin-georgetown-clash/

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Anonymous wrote:They’re also threatening law schools and sending letters saying they won’t hire a grad from a law school that has any sort of “inclusion” in its curriculum. So like, all good law schools.

Where did you get this? Link?

Also, let's face it, who from a good law school would want to work for Trumputin's government?

That dope who's the interim US Attorney for DC told Georgetown Law he wouldn't hire any of their students until they eliminate DEI.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-dei-georgetown-ed-martin-9bff842ed5ca3e4600de52ca6967fe9d

The Law School Dean sent an excellent letter back.

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Anonymous wrote:Hard to feel bad for big law.

It’s not about feeling “bad” for big law. It’s the deterioration of our fundamental rules of law. If our president is going after law firms based on who they represent we are not far off from full dictatorship.

They are hardcore Trump voters. Who cares?

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Great letter from Georgetown

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Those who have client bases aside from the federal government should be fine.

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Anonymous wrote:How is this legal? This is retaliatory and discriminatory based on viewpoint.

This guy and Musk to ruin our country. It’s looking almost treasonous.

In another contracting climate, the firms may not have gotten the government contracts without showing sufficient DEI policies were in place.

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Anonymous wrote:Hard to feel bad for big law.

It’s not about feeling “bad” for big law. It’s the deterioration of our fundamental rules of law. If our president is going after law firms based on who they represent we are not far off from full dictatorship.

They are hardcore Trump voters. Who cares?

This is not true. I don’t know a single associate or law firm partner at my V10 firm who has admitted to voting for Trump. If they are, they are silent because they know better. However, many of us have also been outspokenly anti-Trump since he arrived onto the political scene.

At the same time, I don’t feel bad for law firms either. They are plenty capable of defending themselves and hopefully they do something useful against Trump and his cronies.

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Anonymous wrote:They’re also threatening law schools and sending letters saying they won’t hire a grad from a law school that has any sort of “inclusion” in its curriculum. So like, all good law schools.

I hope no one from any good law school applies to work for this administration. So that works out nicely.