{"id":38545,"date":"2025-04-11T19:51:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T19:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/11\/trump-says-five-more-law-firms-agree-to-pro-bono-work-to-avoid-punitive-executive-orders\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T19:51:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T19:51:01","slug":"trump-says-five-more-law-firms-agree-to-pro-bono-work-to-avoid-punitive-executive-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/11\/trump-says-five-more-law-firms-agree-to-pro-bono-work-to-avoid-punitive-executive-orders\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says five more law firms agree to pro bono work to avoid punitive executive orders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cadwalader and Latham &amp; Watkins among major firms to provide $600m in pro bono work to Trump-backed causes<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/apr\/11\/donald-trump-tariffs-health-check-immigration-el-salvador-us-politics-live-updates\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> said on Friday that five major law firms reached agreements to together provide his administration $600m in pro bono legal work, among other terms, to avoid executive orders punishing them, a significant capitulation to the president as he attacks the legal profession.<\/p>\n<p>The five firms \u2013 Kirkland &amp; Ellis, Latham &amp; Watkins, Allen Overy Shearman Sterling, Simpson Thacher &amp; Bartlett, and Cadwalader, Wickersham &amp; Taft \u2013 are among the most prestigious and recognized firms in the US.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/11\/trump-law-firms-pro-bono-deal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cadwalader and Latham &amp; Watkins among major firms to provide $600m in pro bono work to Trump-backed causes US politics live \u2013 latest updates Donald Trump said on Friday that five major law firms reached agreements to together provide his administration $600m in pro bono legal work, among other terms, to avoid executive orders punishing &#8230; <a title=\"Trump says five more law firms agree to pro bono work to avoid punitive executive orders\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/11\/trump-says-five-more-law-firms-agree-to-pro-bono-work-to-avoid-punitive-executive-orders\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump says five more law firms agree to pro bono work to avoid punitive executive orders\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}