Law students give Trump-caving law firms giant PR & recruitment headaches.

[IrishBubbaLiberal]

"Law students organize to give Trump-caving firms a recruitment problem"

Georgetown Law students made a spreadsheet. National coverage followed. Now, the world's richest firms face PR & recruitment headaches.

An organizer on how it unfolded @www.AllRiseNews.com www.allrisenews.com/p/skadden-st...

— Adam Klasfeld (@klasfeldreports.com) 2025-04-25T00:40:43.179Z

"Law students organize to give Trump-caving firms a recruitment problem"

Georgetown Law students made a spreadsheet. National coverage followed. Now, the world's richest firms face PR & recruitment headaches.


https://www.allrisenews.com/p/skadden-students-georgetown

APR 24, 2025

By creating a spreadsheet, Georgetown Law students sparked national headlines, along with PR headaches and staffing challenges inside the world's most powerful firms.

The day after Donald Trump’s election last year, three Georgetown Law students started a political movement to brace for impact.

The students texted each other, started organizing, and eventually discovered the ability to perform a simple act to put the world’s wealthiest and most powerful law firms on the defensive.

They created a spreadsheet.

After Trump signed executive orders singling out law firms for political retribution, the students recorded BigLaw’s responses in a document they titled “Legal Industry Responses to Fascist Attacks Tracker.”

The Google spreadsheet currently names more than 800 firms, assigning them to one of five stark categories: “Caved to Administration,” “Complying in Advance,” “Other Negative Action,” “Stood Up Against Administration’s Attacks,” or “No Response.”

[SunSeeker]

1. The law students' spreadsheet is brilliant!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1J_bcoMqt46L05As7GN4ZqH4j6XKeI-Dm4ytJPRFtrwo/htmlview#gid=287708862

[IrishBubbaLiberal]

2. A relative of mine left Skadden, just before Skadden kissed Trump's ass

Nt

[SunSeeker]

3. One nice thing the spreadsheet shows is that the vast majority of big firms are not caving. nt

[Blasphemer]

5. Not really. Most of the biggest, most profitable firms caved. The longer list includes less well known firms. nt

[SunSeeker]

7. There are a lot of big firms among those "less known" firms, like Baker Mckenzie.

Baker McKenzie has approximately 4,558 attorneys. They just do insurance defense litigation and such, instead of high profile cases involving politicians. But they still have their DEI pages up.

[Sky Jewels]

4. I really thought that big law firms, especially Dem ones like Paul Weiss, would be the last to cave.

Boy, was I wrong.

I think a lot of other firms are seeing the blowback and shitty consequences and hopefully will not be cowed by fascists.

[PCIntern]

6. I'd rather go to jail than hire one of those cocksuckers

[xuplate]

8. Kudos

The real deep state is ethical people taking grass roots action.

[lindysalsagal]

9. There are far more of us than there are of them.

[Cha]

10. Yay... Thanks to these Law Students for NOT

playing around. Seriouslly!

TY

[Paladin]

11. Nice going, Georgetown Law.

And shame on the Big Law firms who cratered to a piece of shit like trump.

[ancianita]

12. The tracker shows that 10 gave millions in pro bono, & another 17 caved IN ADVANCE, mostly by removing DEI policies.

600+ more more stood up to the felon's threats, and almost 300 more gave no response but kept all their DEI policies intact. Law students still have a lot of choices. No new blood for the cavers.

[Skittles]

13. FIGHTING FASCISM

THERE ARE MANY WAYS