On April 11, five additional major law firms announced deals that would provide hundreds of millions in pro bono legal services in exchange for avoiding prosecution from the Trump administration. Alina Habba, interim U.S. attorney for the state of New Jersey, told Newsmax on Wednesday that the law firms signed President Donald Trump’s deal because “they were colluding.”
The firms of Kirkland & Ellis LLP; Allen Overy Shearman Sterling US LLP; Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP; Latham & Watkins LLP; and Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, LLP announced they would each provide $125 million in free legal work for causes including veterans and combating antisemitism.
In exchange, the White House would absolve the firms of any investigation into their hiring practices. Habba said the firms signed “because they knew they didn’t want any investigations opened into them.”
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