President Donald Trump has canceled the executive order that targeted a prominent international law company after pledging to abandon its diversity policies and provide free legal action to support the White House’s initiatives.
Paul, Wisis, Rifkin, Warton and Gurison LLP are a multi-ethnic legal company headquartered in New York and several senior customers.
On March 14, Trump canceled federal contracts with the company and suspended security permits for his lawyers, saying it would disrupt the US judicial system.
The company is now facing a huge blow to many legal communities, including a senior Democrat lawyer, even at a time when some lawyers have said they have faced several other options.
Trump has issued a similar executive order against Perkence Koy, Kovengeton and Berling.
The White House on Thursday canceled the decree after a meeting between Trump and Brad Carp, President Paul, Wisis, Rifkin, Gurison and Warton.
In a post about the social right-wing company, the president said the company had agreed to a series of privileges, including promising “a $40 million equivalent of Bonho’s legal services during President Trump’s term in support of the administration’s initiatives.
“Poul Wiss will be committed to establishing and promoting the rank of “al-based” and “does not cover any DEI policy, does not use it, or follow it.
Trump’s order last week canceled contracts with companies, referring to Trump’s orders to delete any initiative aimed at diversity, equality and comprehensive (DII) within the federal government.
“We are happy that the president has agreed to withdraw the executive order regarding the Poult, Wisys. We are waiting for a constructive and constructive relationship with the president and his administration,” he said.
Many legal society have expressed anger at the contract, which a lawyer says, “It was a short day for the legal industry.
Mark Elia, former partner of Perkens Koy and a senior Democrat’s lawyer, attacked the agreement at the Social Media Platform.
“Paul Wiss didn’t just draw a knee, set a new standard for a embarrassing surrender,” he wrote. “This is a stain on the company, each of its partners, and the entire legal profession.
Soon after Trump made the announcement, Rachel Cohen, a colleague of Scaden Arps, resigned from a bitter email that condemned the agreement at the company’s level.
“Please consider this email with the knowledge of my two weeks. Cohen had asked Scaden to sign a summary of another company that had filed a complaint against the Trump administration.
he helped organize it Open message Criticism of the Trump administration for attempting to “compans companies that are armed in participating in any representation that has the administration’s goals. According to the Politico website, more than 300 colleagues, without their name, signed the letter live a week ago.
Reuters reported that in a local email address to his lawyers, Mr. Carp defended the agreement and said it was in line with the company’s principles, including compliance with political independence.
According to the US Law magazine, the company earned more than $2 billion annually in 2023 and employed more than 1,000 lawyers. The cancellation of his security permit, which allows his lawyers to see some sensitive information, could create obstacles in his work with his many customers, security and Wall Street.
In the original executive order, Trump accused the company of “a great role in disrupting the judicial process and destroying basic US principles.
He referred to the “a partner of Paul Weiss” who had filed a lawsuit against the perpetrators of the riot of January 6, 2021 in Capitol. Trump published all of them and gave fun of many of those known as the “J6ers”.
It also targeted Mark Pomerantes – A former partner who worked with the Manhattan lawyer on the case related to the actor Storm Daniels. Trump was sworn in last year by a swearing-in-up board that committed a crime in the case.
The order also claimed that the company “discriminate its employees on the basis of other genders and classrooms prohibited by civil rights laws.
Perkins Koy has filed a complaint against him for the similar order.