Law Firm Skadden Arps Seeks Deal to Avert Trump Executive Order

The Elite Skaddden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom law firm had discussions with the councilors of President Trump on an agreement to avoid the type of executive order that the White House has imposed on many of its competitors, according to five people informed about the issue that were not authorized to speak publicly about private conversations.

The talks represent an extraordinary turning point in the campaign of Mr. Trump against law firms and the legal system in a broader way, marking what seems to be the first time that a large company has tried to cut an agreement with the president before he could issue an executive order. Recent orders aimed at other law firms have limited the work they can do with the federal government.

Skaddden discussions are also the last example of how great law firms, which are afraid of a prolonged battle with Mr. Trump, are anxious to attack agreements.

The White House has reported that more companies are in the president’s attractions to receive executive orders, in particular those who employ lawyers who have worked on investigations on Mr. Trump or on causes to which his supporters oppose.

Two of the people informed on the matter said that Skaddden was not the only company in the discussions with the team of Mr. Trump and that more agreements could be announced in the next few days.

It is not clear how the talks have started or if Skaddden will eventually reach an agreement with Mr. Trump. But Wednesday, Trump has hinted that these agreements could emerge and boast of his experience in bringing great law firms to the heel.

“They are all folding and saying:” Lord, thank you very much “,” said Trump, adding, “law firms are just saying:” Where should I sign? Where do I sign? “”

A spokesman for Skaddden did not respond to several requests for comment. A spokesman for the White House refused to comment.

Although it is not clear that Skaddden has attracted the attention of the White House, there have been recent signs that the company could be the next.

In a post on his social media platform, X, Elon Musk identified the work of Skadden by assisting in a cause against Dinesh d’Ouza, the critic of the right media and the political commentator.

“Skadden, this must stop,” Musk wrote in his assignment, referring to the company’s work on behalf of a private citizen who said that Mr. D’Ouza had falsely accused him of fraud in vote in a documentary on the 2020 elections.

The post was somehow surprising because Skadden’s lawyers represented Mr. Musk during his acquisition of Twitter in 2022.

The discussions between Skadden and The Trump Advishers arrive a week after another important law firm, Paul WeissCut an agreement with Mr. Trump This has been widely criticized in the legal community as a capitulation for a brazen and perhaps unconstitutional executive order.

The order of Mr. Trump against Paul Weiss, who has large ties with the democrats and anti-trump causes, had reached the point of preventing the company’s lawyers from entering government buildings.

Trump has agreed to abandon the order in exchange for Paul Weiss’ commitment to represent customers, regardless of their political trends and a donation of $ 40 million in free legal service to make Mr. Trump support.

Paul Weiss’s leaders said that Mr. Trump’s order would decim their business – and that The rivals were trying to hunter Some of their best lawyers. But the company’s agreement seems to have encouraged the president and encouraged other companies to consider the possibility of making its own agreements.

The burst of actions taken by Mr. Trump against law firms was, for the most part, was welcomed with the silence of the industry leaders. Lawyers were reluctant to speak for fear of making their company a goal.

In this void, the deans of the law and the bar associations they released statements Denouncing the actions taken by the president and warn that punishing law firms because of which they represent is a serious threat to the rule of law.

Tuesday, Jenner & Block has become the last great law firm to receive an executive order. The order, like those against Jenner’s competitors, accused the law firm of working in “Lawfare”. The order also identified Jenner’s pro bono practice, claiming that the law firm had used him “to engage in activities that undermine the justice and interests of the United States”.

One of Jenner’s former partners, Andrew Weissmann, had worked closely with the former special councilor Robert S. Mueller III in his investigations on the links between the campaign of Mr. Trump and Russia during his first term.

Damage also found Signor Mueller swept himself himselfThe survey on potential Russian interference in the 2016 elections, although the issues had little connection with Mr. Trump. Mueller’s investigation had focused on some of the lobbying works that Skadden’s lawyers had carried out for the former Fili-Russian government of Ukraine.

So far, Perkins Coie is the lone law firm willing to go to court to fight Mr. Trump for one of his executive orders – and is a certain initial success.

In an order, temporarily excluding an important part of the order of Mr. Trump in force, a federal judge in Washington suggested that he was unconstitutional.

“I am sure that many in the profession are observing with horror what Perkins Coie is going through,” said Judge Beryl A. Howell of the Federal District Court for the Columbia district. He added: “He sends my chills along my back.”

On Wednesday, judge Howell rejected an administrative motion of Trump who recasted himself from the case. He said that the disqualification motion was “full of allusions”.

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