Chris Opfer
Deputy Team Lead, Bloomberg Law at Bloomberg News
Reporter/editor, bathroom graffiti enthusiast. @BLaw. Signal: 5712364850. [email protected]. u/chrisopfer DMs open. Legal industry newsletter link below.
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1 week ago |
news.bloomberglaw.com | Chris Opfer
Five of the world’s largest law firms reached deals with President Donald Trump to avoid punitive executive orders and resolve federal discrimination probes against four of them. Kirkland & Ellis, Latham & Watkins, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, Cadwalader, and A&O Shearman are committing at least $600 million combined in pro bono legal services to causes advocated by Trump, the president said via Truth Social.
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2 weeks ago |
news.bloomberglaw.com | Chris Opfer |Tatyana Monnay
Large law firms plan to refuse to give the Trump administration information on their clients’ diversity initiatives as part of federal discrimination investigations. The 20 firms facing questions from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission will reject the agency’s inquiries related to clients over confidentiality concerns, according to two people familiar with the matter.
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2 weeks ago |
news.bloombergtax.com | Chris Opfer |Tatyana Monnay
Large law firms plan to refuse to give the Trump administration information on their clients’ diversity initiatives as part of federal discrimination investigations. The 20 firms facing questions from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission will reject the agency’s inquiries related to clients over confidentiality concerns, according to three people familiar with the matter.
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3 weeks ago |
news.bloombergtax.com | Chris Opfer
A DC federal judge on Friday temporarily barred the Trump administration from enforcing sections of an executive order targeting law firm WilmerHale. The firm showed “a substantial likelihood of success” on its First Amendment objections to order provisions that restrict access to federal buildings and cut government contracts, Judge Richard Leon of the US District Court for the District of Columbia wrote.
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3 weeks ago |
news.bloombergtax.com | Chris Opfer
A DC federal judge on Friday temporarily barred the Trump administration from enforcing sections of an executive order targeting law firm WilmerHale. The firm showed “a substantial likelihood of success” on its First Amendment objections to order provisions that restrict lawyers’ access to federal buildings and cut government contracts for WilmerHale clients, Judge Richard Leon of the US District Court for the District of Columbia wrote. Leon blocked the government from enforcing those provisions.
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WilmerHale sued Trump less than 24 hours after the president issued an executive order against the firm because of its ties to Robert Mueller.
Jenner & Block and WilmerHale filed separate suits in a federal court in Washington, asking courts to block the orders targeting the firms over their ties to Robert Mueller. https://t.co/WoGwW9VMRi
RT @BLaw: Breaking: President Donald Trump on Thursday issued an executive order against WilmerHale. https://t.co/9qTx1a0sGu
RT @MarkSZaidEsq: "Let's kill all the lawyers," said Shakespeare's "Dick The Butcher" in Henry VI & President Donald J. Trump. That's what…
