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By targeting law firms because they represented clients that took positions adverse to the Administration’s policy priorities, the Orders have deterred both law firms and companies from engaging with the legal system in ways that may displease the Administration out of fear of federal retaliation.
— General Counsels United, a nationwide non-partisan collective of more than 800 general counsels, in an amicus brief filed in support of the Biglaw firms targeted by Donald Trump’s Executive Orders. “The Orders have already distorted the lens through which general counsels must make outside-counsel decisions, even before any agency has implemented any part of these Orders,” the brief continues. “If allowed to take effect, the Orders would require federal government contractors to report every matter in which they have engaged a targeted law firm; require federal agencies to review all federal government contracts with companies that hired the targeted firms; limit all federal employees from ‘engaging’ with employees of the targeted firms; bar every employee of the targeted firms from accessing ‘Federal Government buildings’ (including, presumably, the federal courts) and suspend all security clearances for attorneys who work at those law firms.”
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