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More than 500 law firms have signed on to an amicus brief filed Friday in support of Perkins Coie’s challenge to President Donald Trump’s executive order targeting the firm. While a majority of the signatories are small and midsized firms, about a dozen Am Law 200 firms, including at least eight Am Law 100 firms, have signed on to the brief as well. The big firm names include Arnold & Porter; Freshfields US; Covington & Burling; Crowell & Moring; Davis Wright Tremaine; Foley Hoag; Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr; Jenner & Block; Manatt, Phelps & Phillips; Munger, Tolles & Olson; Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler; Susman Godfrey; Stoel Rives; Hanson Bridgett; and Fenwick & West, breaking the wall of silence dominating the Am Law 200. “Although we do not take this step lightly, our abiding commitment to preserving the integrity of the American legal system leaves us no choice but to join together to oppose the March 6, 2025 Executive Order” against Perkins Coie, the brief reads. The amicus brief was filed by Munger Tolles & Olsen’s Donald Verrilli, former U.S. solicitor general, as well as Nathan Eimer of Eimer Stahl. The brief follows the same contours as the Perkins suit, claiming that President Trump’s executive order targeting the firm and its clients violates several constitutional amendments. “But something even more fundamental is at stake. In recent weeks, the president has issued not one but five executive orders imposing punitive sanctions on leading law firms in undisguised retaliation for representations that the firm, or its former partners, have undertaken, and more may be in the offing,” the brief reads. “Those [executive orders] pose a grave threat to our system of constitutional governance and to the rule of law itself. The judiciary should act with resolve—now—to ensure that this abuse of executive power ceases.” The amicus adds that, “like every lawyer, the members of the amicus law firms have sworn an oath to uphold the constitution and to discharge the obligations of the profession to the best of our ability.” Full story from Abigail Adcox and Amanda O'Brien: https://lnkd.in/ekwTfr2c

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Breaking: This is big. More than 500 law firms have signed an amicus brief filed in support of Perkins Coie’s challenge to Donald Trump’s executive order against the firm. Among the #BigLaw signatories are Arnold & Porter; Freshfields US; Covington & Burling LLP; Crowell & Moring; Davis Wright Tremaine LLP; WilmerHale; Jenner & Block; Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP; Susman Godfrey LLP and Fenwick & West. “…our abiding commitment to preserving the integrity of the American legal system leaves us no choice but to join together to oppose the March 6, 2025 Executive Order” Read the full story by Abigail Adcox and Amanda O'Brien here: https://lnkd.in/er_Bas_i #lawyers #trump #lawfirms

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Well, the law firm amicus brief is finally here, and it was signed by over 500 law firms! Read more below, Law.com The American Lawyer https://lnkd.in/e6-x94Gx

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