Sara Merken is a Legal Reporter at Reuters. She covers the business of law and the evolving legal market, focusing on themes such as litigation, legal technology, and broader legal affairs. Her work has been featured in Yahoo Finance and Reuters.
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As most major law firms stay silent on U.S. President Donald Trump's executive orders targeting the legal industry, some of the firms' lawyers are pushing back on their own.
By: Sara Merken, Mike Scarcella
Law firms that have pledged $940 million so far in free legal work and made other concessions to U.S. President Donald Trump are facing a backlash from some of their own lawyers, who say the firms compromised too much to avoid a showdown with the administration.
An association of more than 700 partners at major U.S. law firms submitted a court brief on Friday supporting Susman Godfrey in its federal lawsuit challenging U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order against the firm.
By: Mike Scarcella, Sara Merken
President Donald Trump has directed the U.S. Justice Department to mobilize law firms to defend police officers unjustly accused of misconduct free of charge, marking the latest effort to steer the work of private lawyers to his administration's ends.
By: Sara Merken
More than 1,100 law students on Tuesday filed a court brief supporting law firm Susman Godfrey, saying U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order against the firm amounts to "government reprisal."
By: Mike Scarcella, Sara Merken
A prominent lawyer in Washington who defended Hunter Biden against criminal charges has launched a new law firm to represent former government officials and others targeted by the Trump administration.
International law firm Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner said Friday that it plans to cut about 8% of its professional staff.
U.S. law firms McDermott, Will & Emery and Schulte, Roth & Zabel are in talks to combine in what would be the latest major legal industry merger, the firms said on Thursday.
Democratic New York state lawmakers have introduced legislation that would bar law firms in the state from requiring employees to do free legal work performed as part of an agreement the firm made with the Trump administration.
John Keller, a former senior U.S. Justice Department lawyer who resigned in February amid a clash over the prosecution of New York City's mayor, has joined law firm Walden Macht Haran & Williams, the firm said on Tuesday.
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