Skadden, a Top Law Firm, Is in Talks to Avert an Executive Order

[dalton99a]

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/business/trump-law-firms-skadden-arps.html

Skadden, a Top Law Firm, Is in Talks to Avert an Executive Order
The discussions come as other major firms are said to be trying to cut deals with the White House.
By Michael S. Schmidt, Ben Protess, Matthew Goldstein, Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Maureen Farrell
March 27, 2025, 5:24 p.m. ET

The elite law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom has had discussions with President Trump’s advisers about a deal to avert the type of executive order that the White House has been imposing on many of its competitors, according to five people briefed on the matter who were not authorized to speak publicly about private conversations.

The talks represent an extraordinary turn in Mr. Trump’s campaign against law firms and the legal system more broadly, marking what appears to be the first time that a major firm has tried to cut a deal with the president before he could issue an executive order. Recent orders targeting other law firms have restricted the work they can do with the federal government.

The Skadden discussions are also the latest example of how large law firms, afraid of a protracted battle with Mr. Trump, are eager to strike deals.

The White House has signaled that more firms are in the president’s sights to receive executive orders, particularly those that employ lawyers who have worked on investigations into Mr. Trump or on causes that his supporters object to.

Two of the people briefed on the matter said that Skadden was not the only firm in discussions with Mr. Trump’s team, and that multiple deals could be announced in the coming days.

It is unclear how the talks got started or whether Skadden will ultimately reach an agreement with Mr. Trump. But on Wednesday, Mr. Trump hinted that such deals might emerge and boasted about his track record of bringing big law firms to heel.

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[bucolic_frolic]

1. Cowards in suits.

[Ms. Toad]

2. I'm disgusted.

Authoritarian wannabes are supposed to kill all the lawyers. They aren't supposed to commit suicide to avoid carrying out their duty of upholding the rule of law.

[Biophilic]

3. Bunch of F'ing wealthy cowards.

Basically traitors to the constitution.

[newdeal2]

5. Cowards yes

I would say Trump is the traitor though.

[Passages]

4. New low in America.

We seem to hit that mark each day.

[alarimer]

6. Fucking cowards

Does nobody have any courage anymore? Or all they a bunch of cowards and collaborators?

[Buns_of_Fire]

7. El Cloaca's "Executive Orders" are becoming a joke.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 25-22476728:

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, Rump the Magnifient and Beneficial has determined that one PORGIE TIREBITER, currently residing at (redacted) said on or about December 11, 2004, "Trump's an asshole."

IT IS HEREBY DETERMINED that TIREBITER does not love DEAR LEADER.

IT IS THEREFORE RESOLVED, AND SO ORDERED, that TIREBITER will no longer get an invitation to love up DEAR LEADER'S immaculate backside.

(OMG! NO! Anything but THAT!)

[JoseBalow]

8. drumpf has discovered a new and effective shakedown tool

[jmowreader]

9. That's a firm I never expected to see Trump attack

That is, until I went to their website and found this...

https://www.skadden.com/insights/publications/executive-briefing/executive-briefing

Skadden Arps, one of the whitest-shoe of all white-shoe law firms, has set up a Trump Executive Actions Advisory Group to analyze His Orangeness and the maladministration and provide advice to their customers on how to deal with him. Trump almost certainly hates this.

[Jit423]

10. Their clients must be shit too. Otherwise they would be acting differently. Nt