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Here are today's top stories: President Trump said he might have some pro bono work for some of the Big Law firms that have struck deals to avoid getting hit with an executive order. Plus, a transgender influencer is taking on Trump in a battle over passports, and a U.S. judge set a hearing for this afternoon in the lawsuit over a man wrongly deported to El Salvador. Scroll for some of the week's big headlines. Let's go! Were you forwarded this email? Subscribe here. |
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President Trump said he will seek to get major U.S. law firms to do free legal work to support his trade team's negotiations with other countries after four firms in recent weeks agreed to donate legal services for his administration, our colleagues Jeff Mason and Tom Hals report. "I think we're going to try to use these very prestigious firms to help us out with the trade," Trump said at the White House. He did not mention any firms by name. Four leading law firms — Paul Weiss, Skadden, Milbank and Willkie Farr — agreed to provide hundreds of millions of dollars of free legal services to advance causes approved by the administration to avoid business-threatening orders against them by the White House. Several firms including WilmerHale, Jenner & Block and Perkins Coie were hit with punitive executive orders. But the firms have won early court orders blocking key provisions of the executive actions against them, underscoring a divide in the legal profession over firms that are settling with the administration and those that are fighting it. Paul Weiss, Skadden, Milbank and Willkie did not immediately respond to requests for comment. | |
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- A U.S. House committee dropped its probe for information from Northwestern University over its law school's representation of pro-Palestinian protestors. The investigation appeared to be the first congressional inquiry into a law school clinic's representation of a client.
- Rebecca Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya, two Democratic FTC commissioners who were fired last month by President Trump, told Reuters that Elon Musk's government cost-cutting campaign at the agency raises concern about exposure of confidential corporate data. Separately, 55 Democratic lawmakers in a letter to the White House said Trump should reinstate Slaughter and Bedoya.
- Meanwhile, the U.S. Senate confirmed President Trump's pick for the third Republican FTC commissioner, Mark Meador. He is a partner at Kressin Meador Powers and former antitrust counsel to U.S. Senator Mike Lee of Utah.
- In Puerto Rico, U.S. District Judge Raúl Arias-Marxuach said in a ruling that plaintiffs' lawyers in a soccer antitrust case will have to pay legal fees to Paul Weiss for filing court papers "with a litany of inaccurate information." The attorneys denied using artificial intelligence, and said their missteps were inadvertent.
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That's how much the U.S. State Department agreed to pay to settle a lawsuit over legal fees sought by a former top U.S. official who testified against President Trump during his first impeachment. Gordon Sondland, who served as Trump's ambassador to the European Union, accused the State Department in a 2021 lawsuit of violating an oral agreement to pay his legal bills. His lawyer handling the lawsuit, Mark Barondess, called the settlement "a rare example of the government being bound to an oral agreement." Read more about it in this week's Billable Hours report. |
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- U.S. District Judge Fernando Rodriguez in Texas will weigh further extending a temporary order to block deportations of alleged Venezuelan gang members held at the El Valle Detention Center under a wartime law. The Trump administration last month deported 238 Venezuelans to a prison in El Salvador.
- The former CFO of disbarred California attorney Tom Girardi's law firm will be sentenced in a criminal prosecution in California stemming from his alleged theft of millions of dollars in client funds. Christopher Kamon's lawyers will argue that he should not be sentenced to more than 30 months in prison.
- In Chicago, U.S. District Judge Matthew Kennelly will hold a status hearing in antitrust litigation accusing health insurers and a data analytics company MultiPlan of underpaying health providers billions of dollars in reimbursement rates for out-of-network services.
Court calendars are subject to last-minute docket changes.
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- President Trump failed to persuade a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit accusing him of making defamatory statements about five Black and Hispanic men who were wrongly convicted and imprisoned for the 1989 rape of a white jogger in New York's Central Park.
- U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy in Boston expressed concern with what he called a "troublesome" new Trump administration policy that appears to allow authorities to rapidly deport hundreds of migrants to countries without notice that they could be sent there and before they can raise a claim that they might be killed upon arrival.
- The 5th Circuit revived a civil rights lawsuit alleging that a south Louisiana parish engaged in discriminatory land-use practices that placed polluting industries in majority-Black communities in a stretch of land nicknamed "Cancer Alley."
- Block will pay a $40 million civil fine and hire an independent monitor to settle charges by New York's financial services regulator that it failed to adequately police and stop money laundering on its Cash App mobile payment service.
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- McGuireWoods added corporate technology partner Tara Bradley in Charlotte, North Carolina, from Dentons. (McGuireWoods)
- Holland & Hart brought on Phoenix-based environmental litigation partner Janet Howe from Perkins Coie. (Holland & Hart)
- Sullivan & Worcester added Cameron Cosby to its REIT and tax practices in D.C. from Fried Frank. (Sullivan & Worcester)
- Honigman hired real estate partner Mike Tirmanin in Chicago from Ice Miller. (Honigman)
>> More moves to share? Please drop us a note at LegalCareerTracker@thomsonreuters.com.
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Federal, state and local governments have historically used a collection tool known as Responsible Person Liability to recover taxes and trust fund obligations that a business fails to pay. Many individuals are completely unaware that they could find themselves on the hook to the IRS for a hefty sum of money, write Michael Puzyk and Paul Buonaguro of McCarter & English. Read today's Attorney Analysis. |
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