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It’s a con to create the illusion that Trump is tough on lawyers when it really adds nothing to the law whatsoever.
Trump has apparently decided that lawyers will be his new punching bag and he will find ways to attack their credibility and turn the public against them whenever he can.
— Professor Steven Gillers of NYU Law, in comments given to the American Lawyer, on one of President Donald Trump’s latest executive orders targeting the legal profession, titled “Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court.” Boutique law firms have started to speak out against Trump’s revenge campaign, but Biglaw firms continue to remain silent.
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