[uspol/uspol-adjacent]

Tag's kinda werid since although this is about something Trump did, it's more the fallout for the people who caved to it.

https://www.wsj.com/...

The law firms Trump targeted with illegal EOs who signed deals to provide free legal work are finding out that, shockingly, companies aren't particularly eager to have people quick to capitulate as their representation.

Meanwhile, the ones who fought his illegal EOs targeting their firms are being approached instead

The biggest surprise in there is McDonald's, which axed its representation while it's being sued

Which is one of those things you don't see very often, because it's basically shooting yourself in the foot

but in this case they decided "nah, we'll probably be better off if we aren't defended by cowards"

wow who could have predicted that

And an especially loud FUCK YOU to Kirkland & Ellis, which took the novel approach of encouraging other firms to sign deals with Trump

i love "find out" time

Also? 4 top lawyers from a firm that caved LEFT IN PROTEST to start their own firm together

That's actually up to 5 now.

Paul Weiss lost five partners (so far) over this shit

Damn yeah. I can see that.

Supposedly none of them mentioned the deal in their resignation letters but like

come on

absolutely none of them were gonna go anywhere before this shit, but then you have partners jumping ship like this only after the deal? Come on.