The law firm, which employs Doug Emehouf, the husband of former Vice President Kamala Harris, is the latest in the Trump administration and agrees to comply with the President’s policies.
On Tuesday, Trump announced that Willkie Farr & Gallagher, to which Emhoff joined as a partner in January, agreed to provide at least $ 100 million in professional legal work during President Trump’s period in and outside the White House. The president said that the services would be devoted to helping old warriors, Gold Star families, law enforcement members and the first respondents.
Trump He wrote about social truthAnd its social media platform, that the company agreed to combat anti -Semitism and not engage in “Dei” efforts.
“Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP has proactive with President Trump and his administration, as they submitted their decisive commitment to end the weapons of the judicial system and the legal profession,” the White House said in a statement. “The president fulfills his promises to eliminate the party party in America, and to restore freedom and justice for all.”
Emhoff told the law office’s leadership that he did not agree to a deal with Trump, according to a source familiar with the talks that were not permitted to speak publicly.
Harris and Mahouf did not respond to the request for comment on Tuesday
Trump’s agreement with Emhoff is the latest in the process of making deals between the White House and major American law firms that the president accused of liberal bias, trivial, fraudulent or other wrong practices.
The president’s efforts have sparked widespread alert between Democratic elected officials, as well as constitutional attorneys and a campaign about their impact on the separation of the powers included in the United States’ constitution and the independence of the judiciary.
“The procedures filed against law firms are illegal.” Said Irwin Kimirinski, dean of the University of California, who tried to gather between the deans of the Law Faculty at the University of California in Berkeley, who tried to gather the deans of the Faculty of Law.
The president of EMHOFF – which includes 1,200 employees in six countries – confirmed the agreement, according to Trump.
Thomas M. Cerabino, President of Trump, “The essence of this agreement corresponds to our company’s opinions on access to legal representation by customers, including pro -customers, and our commitment to compliance with the law in terms of its connection with our employment practices, and our history of working with customers through a wide range of political views.”
Emhoff, 60, worked as a lawyer for entertainment, media and intellectual property, and he was appointed to help advise companies, entities and people in the midst of the crisis or deal with legal change, according to the company’s announcement when it was brought in January.
Cerabino said at the time that Emhoff was “a reliable consultant for many international business leaders through a wide range of industries.”
Shortly before Trump announced the agreement on social media on Tuesday, Emhoff spoke to the Jorusown College of Law students.
He said: “The rule of law is being attacked. Democracy is being attacked. Thus, we all have to do what we can respond to it.” “American lawyers have always been on the front lines, fighting for civil rights, for justice … I like to be a lawyer, that’s what we do: we are fighting for people. We are fighting for what is right.”
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Trump attacked major law firms to employ lawyers who participated in cases against him and his allies in the past, including supporters who stormed the American Capitol on January 6, 2021. It also targeted them to enhance the diversity of exciting and equality initiatives, including employment, and to show the liberated political animals in the chosen.
Trump issued a presidential note threatening all law firms with penalties, canceling security permits and other penalties if his administration decides that it had incorrectly filed the federal government.
Many companies have entered into deals to keep or avoid more revenge, while other cases were filed, claiming that they illegally targeted revenge.
The company, Paul, Weiss, Rivation, and Erton & Garrison, agreed to contribute $ 40 million in legal services for reasons that Trump caused customer representation regardless of political affiliation. Skadden, ARPS, Slate and Meagher & Flom have agreed to save more than $ 100 million in free services for Trump’s -backed initiatives.
The leaders of these companies defended the deals, on the pretext that the promised work as part of which serves the interests of companies.
Many other companies filed a lawsuit against the administration for their attacks.
“For more than 100 years, Jenner stood firm and tirelessly defended our clients against all opponents, including against illegal government measures. We again go to the court to do so,” the company Jenner & Block wrote in a recent statement about its decision to the disease. “Otherwise, it means giving up our ability to call enthusiastically to all our customers and surrender to coercion of the unconstitutional government, and it is simply not in our DNA.”
The company has rented the prominent conservative lawyer Paul Clement to deal with its case.
Many in the legal world, including prominent academics, have concluded in the agreements reached by the law firms with the Trump administration, who are attentive that they are a major threat to the legal profession and the basic principle of American law, that everyone deserves representation from the lawyer who specializes in court – whether it is a political ally residing in the White House or not.
“The way the justice system is supposed to work is that every person has the right to advise and that you do not punish the representation of people who are not politically popular.” “It is your government system to operate law firms like this.”