beSpacific<p>America's most prestigious <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> firms agreed 2 provide almost $1B worth of legal work 2 <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> who announced deals with 5 firms Friday. He began this process by signing <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/executiveorders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>executiveorders</span></a> targeting firms that had employed or represented his <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/critics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>critics</span></a>. As more firms have <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/capitulated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitulated</span></a>, Trump has been able to extract significantly bigger concessions using significantly less leverage even from firms w which he had no personal grievance <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>corruption</span></a> <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/04/12/big-law-pro-bono-legal-work-trump" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">axios.com/2025/04/12/big-law-p</span><span class="invisible">ro-bono-legal-work-trump</span></a></p>