Should your extremely expensive lawyer understand how a shakedown works?
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The inevitable was apparently not evitable:
When some of the nation’s biggest law firms agreed to deals with President Trump, the terms appeared straightforward: In return for escaping the full force of his retribution campaign, the firms would do some free legal work on behalf of largely uncontroversial causes like helping veterans.
Mr. Trump, it turns out, has a far more expansive view of what those firms can be called on to do.
Over the last week, he has suggested that the firms will be drafted into helping him negotiate trade deals.
He has mused about having them help with his goal of reviving the coal industry.
And he has hinted that he sees the promises of nearly $1 billion in pro bono legal services that he has extracted from the elite law firms — including Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison; Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom; and Willkie Farr & Gallagher — as a legal war chest to be used as he wishes.
“Have you noticed that lots of law firms have been signing up with Trump: $100 million, another $100 million for damages that they’ve done,” Mr. Trump said at an event last week with coal miners, without specifying what he meant by damages.
Every one of these firms should be boycotted on principle. But they should also be boycotted because why on Earth would you pay top-of-the-market prices for the legal services of a firm who thinks that Donald Trump will abide by the terms of the agreements you reach with him without demanding more? Is that who you want representing you in a negotiation?
