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14. "other firms may abandoned their 'deals'"
Mon Jun 2, 2025, 03:13 PM
Jun 2

I remember seeing this article last month (by the time I spotted it, it was a couple days outside of LBN's 12-hour criteria) -

Big Law firm says its Trump deal is nothing more than a 364-word Truth Social post


By Jacob Shamsian and Jack Newsham

May 22, 2025, 12:23 PM ET


For one of the Big Law firms that made a deal with President Donald Trump, it's the Truth Social, the whole Truth Social, and nothing but the Truth Social.

In a letter to Congress, A&O Shearman said Trump's 364-word Truth Social post constituted "the complete terms" of the deal. A&O Shearman and three other firms pledged $125 million each in free legal work toward Trump's political priorities, according to the post.

"The complete terms of the Agreement are as set forth in the four numbered paragraphs of the President's April 11, 2025 social media post," William E. White and William J.F. Roll III, the firm's co-general counsels, wrote in the May 8 letter.

Prior to A&O Shearman's letter to Congress, it was unclear whether any law firm had a written agreement spelling out the terms of the deals. A Justice Department lawyer, in litigation related to Trump's executive orders targeting law firms that didn't strike deals with Trump, has said in court that he didn't know whether any such agreements existed.

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Thanks for the article link!!

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