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Many white-shoe law firms have caved to Donald Trump and agreed to do hundreds of millions of dollars worth of pro bono work for clients he chooses. It has not always worked out so well for them, though, with boycotts from clients and partners and associates leaving. Many recent law school graduates have not applied for jobs there.
On the other side, one very successful lawyer, Abbe Lowell, has now started his own firm specifically for defending people Trump is attacking. Fed governor Lisa Cook, whom Trump has tried to fire, hired him, as has NY AG Letitia James. Same with Miles Taylor, whom Trump singled out for investigation, and Mark Zaid, a D.C. attorney who had his security clearance yanked by Trump to get revenge on him. Margaret Donovan, who has worked with Lowell in the past, said: "He wants to take on a lot of fights." Lowell has a long list of senators and governors he has defended.
On a podcast at The Contrarian last week, Lowell said that his various cases have different facts, but there is a central theme that runs through all of them, "which is the full power of the federal government being pointed in the direction of individual people in the United States who happen to be adverse to this administration's policies or who have criticized them." No previous president has ever weaponized the entire federal government in order to destroy his critics. (V)