This week’s escalation of the Trump administration’s targeting of major law firms has come as a shock to a legal profession not used to such direct government intervention in their business.
After issuing stringent executive orders curtailing the business activities of Paul Weiss, Covington & Burling and Perkins Coie, firms whose lawyers have come up against Donald Trump in the past, this Monday (17 March) the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced that it had opened investigations into a total of 20 global law firms in relation to their recruitment policies.
