More than 500 law firms moved to submit Brief Amicus on Friday to support the Perkins Coie lawsuit against Trump’s administrative executive orders who targeted the firm to represent the 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign representative.
“Executive orders in question in this case, and others like it, aimed directly to several leading legal firms in the country and trying to turn on every other, large and small firm, to be handed over,” said Amicus Brief.
Signage is seen outside the Perkins Coie law firm at their law office in Washington, DC, May 10, 2021.
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“The towering threat caused by the executive order in this case and the other is not lost to anyone who practices the law in this country today: controversial representation that challenges administrative actions today (or even causing it not to be trusted) now carry the risk of destroying,” said the company in the brief.
“Whatever the short -term advantages of an administration that can be obtained from exercising power in this way, the rule of law cannot last long in the fear climate created by such actions,” they added.
Company List Has been circulated for several weeks among top law firms throughout the country because they weighed whether to go public to support the Coie Perkins – or stay silent because their worries can be the next target.
Five companies so far chose to cut an agreement with the White House to avoid the same target, as announced by the White House.
Two law firms, Wilmerhale and Jenner and Block, joined Perkins Coie in submitting a lawsuit against administration and getting an emergency order from federal judges for a while prohibiting the enforcement of executive orders on the grounds that they were unlikely to be constitutional.
While some “big law” companies added their names to the list sent on Friday, perhaps the most prominent name was the name that did not enter.
Kirkland and Ellis, the largest US law firm with income, is not on the list, even though the Wall Street Journal Reported Thursday This is in talks with the White House to avoid targets. Latham and Watkins, the second largest company with income, or one of the 10 other top companies based on income rating.