What is a law firm to show how much he loves Donald Trump? Of course, this can eliminate all the efforts of diversity, equity and inclusion and unite the president With millions of Pro Bono legal work, but what happens if they really want to stand out? How about just working for free for administration?
This seems to be the approach on which Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and Kirkland & Ellis have settled. The New York Times report that the two companies, both coupes deal with the administration to avoid being targeted by one of the many punitive decreeshave branched up and do business agreements now, apparently.
According to The Times, the two companies work on “a range of questions” for the Commerce Department. Since we no longer have a functional government which allows us to know exactly what is done with our taxes, it is not entirely clear what services the companies provide. Instead, of course, we have obtained one of these aggressive Florida declarations that the administration likes to issue: Trade “Works with some of the main law firms and legal minds to consolidate the truly historical commercial transactions that President Trump has negotiated for the American people. This partnership contributes to unlocking the greatest advantages of the foreign market for American exports.
Put aside the fact that all Trump’s trade “transactions“Are only absurd mobile targets and that the administration tries to hide that its policies are Crossing the economyIt is not normal for the main American law firms to have a “partnership” with the government to represent it for free.
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Paul, Weiss really went beyond in terms of loyalty status to the administration. The company was the first to accept the bribes of several million dollars, although it realized early meant that they only paid $ 40 million. They have business loserAnd rightly so, on this capitulation. They also lost upper talentBecause who wants to work for a business willing to sell this hard?
Because everything is so corrupt and stupid, the two companies were “connected“Do a free job for the trade department by Boris Epshteyn, one of Trump’s personal lawyers. Of course, Epshteyn is so corrupt that it has been the subject of an investigation by Trump’s own lawyers for his attempts to influence hawkingBut why would it do on the way?
In appearance, all the companies that promised to provide nearly a billion dollars in free legal services were supposed to help the poorly served populations. Paul, Weiss explicitly stated That their free work aimed “to help the veterans of our nation, to fight against anti -Semitism and to promote the equity of the judicial system”. I do not know how to do the trade agreement works that lawyers in the trade department would normally be really under these things.
Before he started to help with all these truly historical commercial transactions, Kirkland and Ellis had already shown a remarkable amount of moral flexibility on his agreement with Trump. The company’s chair Accompanied Trump In the Middle East in May, part of the Corporate fat This surrounded the president for this trip, so it is natural that the company continues to be absent.
While the initial objective of Trump’s attacks on the Great Act was to punish companies related to Democrats, the eagerness of certain companies to capitulate makes them useful for many Trump needs. Indeed, the president said that he thought that these pro bono agreements would allow companies to represent it personally– Unscreening.
To be fair, the criminal condemned and “the businessman” happy in action needs a lot of Personal legal representationAnd he does hate paying For this, these Quisling law firms can expect this.
