Playbook: “The Trump administration’s efforts to relax opposition among the many elite authorized class are working. Even earlier than the Paul, Weiss deal, legal professionals at main legislation corporations in New York and Washington have been struggling to search out methods to collectively push again in opposition to the Trump administration’s efforts to punish disfavored legislation corporations, which started with Covington & Burling and Perkins Coie.”
“Trump’s cope with the agency spurred telephone calls and textual content messages throughout the elite authorized class — many expressing shock and concern, and a relative few taking modest pleasure within the public blowback (which might show to be a enterprise alternative for opponents seeking to poach shoppers). Democratic authorized strategist David Axelrod additionally posited that the deal might have extra direct political results on the Democratic Social gathering by deterring legal professionals at massive corporations from marketing campaign fundraising.”
Additionally essential: “Nearly nobody with any long-term standing within the non-public authorized neighborhood is keen to talk publicly about it, partly out of worry that they or their corporations might wind up in Trump’s crosshairs.”
