President Trump announced a series of agreements with five major law firms Friday, signing deals for some $600 million in pro bono work as the Trump administration continues its pressure campaign on the legal profession.
Kirkland & Ellis, Allen Overy Shearman Sterling, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, and Latham & Watkins all agreed to perform $125 million each in pro bono legal work – the highest figure seen yet in any of the agreements brokered by Trump with various legal firms.
In exchange, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) will withdraw letters sent to each of the firms asking questions about their hiring practices and implying firms’ efforts to diversify their workforce could violate employment laws.
The deals bring to nine the number of firms that have struck agreements with Trump in the wake of numerous actions targeting major law offices.
The deals signed by the five firms on Friday, like those announced previously, call on the firms to take up pro bono work on a number of topics prioritized by the Trump administration.
They also commit to not denying representation based on political views and to “give Fair and Equal consideration to Job Candidates, irrespective of their political beliefs, including Candidates who have served in the Trump Administration.”
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The Reichskonkordat (“Concordat between the Holy See and the German Reich”[1]) is a treaty negotiated between the Vatican and the emergent Nazi Germany. It was signed on 20 July 1933 by Cardinal Secretary of State Eugenio Pacelli, who later became Pope Pius XII, on behalf of Pope Pius XI and Vice Chancellor Franz von Papen on behalf of President Paul von Hindenburg and the German government. It was ratified on 10 September 1933.
Still not the worst part of working in biglaw.
Of everything happening, this is maybe the most troubling to me in terms of how fucked we actually are
If you remember all the political plotlines in The Good Wife/The Good Fight, it’s even funnier, of course.
> fair and Equal consideration to Job Candidates, irrespective of their political beliefs
Be good for Palestinian protesters; anti-trump protestors etc..
> including Candidates who have served in the Trump Administration.
Bit of a stretch to think any would meet the competence requirement for a job in big law.