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Two law firms targeted by the executive decrees of President Donald Trump – Jenner & Block and Wilmerhale – brought prosecution on Friday while the legal industry continues to fight against the unprecedented attacks of the White House.
The two companies, which have links with former special lawyer Robert Mueller, are now the second and third to continue. Perkins Coie had previously gone to the court and obtained a temporary block on certain parts of the policy.
Jenner & Block – Founded in Chicago, but with an important lawyer in Washington, working in regulatory law, litigation and congress surveys – is one of several large companies that have brought cases against the Trump administration linked to social policy changes and the funding of the federal government that could be lost.
In his trial brought before the Washington Federal Court Friday, the cabinet said that he thought that Trump’s decree against this was unconstitutional and that it was to cool the legal work he manages.
“These efforts to distinguish those who pursue the government, to undermine the lawyer-client relationship, to dissuade the speech protected by the political agenda of the administration, and to punish citizens for their associations are unimacitable with the Constitution”, the lawyers representing the law firm wrote in legal documents deposited by the Washington Federal Court on Friday.
The cabinet said that in the trial he would probably lose businesses, in particular those who are government entrepreneurs, if the court does not intervene to block Trump’s policies.
“The continuous refusals of federal officials to meet lawyers to Jenner, or to refuse lawyers to Jenner access to federal agencies and buildings, would be devastating both for the legal practice of Jenner and the interests of his customers,” said the cabinet in his complaint.
The firm said that a customer had heard that Jenner’s lawyers would not be authorized at a meeting with the Ministry of Justice in which the firm is supposed to represent the customer. The customer would then not have a legal representation at the meeting or should find new lawyers in a few days.
“The company’s partners have spent hundreds of hours, collectively, with customers of the Order and its implications,” said the complaint. Many of the largest customers in the company, representing 40% of its income, have noted the trial, are entrepreneurs of the federal government.
“Several customers have expressed concerns about the compulsory government’s compulsory government of their relationship with the company with federal agencies and the impact that could have on the entrepreneur’s own relations with the federal government,” said the trial.
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr, with hundreds of DC lawyers and a long history in Washington, also continued on Friday.
The Order of the White House limits the hiring of Wilmer’s lawyers to the federal government, the company’s access to federal buildings and possible reprisals against certain customers “will inevitably cause significant and lasting damage to the current and future commercial prospects of Wilmerhale” and its ability to represent customers who choose it, the firm wrote.
The firm was the professional home of the former FBI director and special lawyer Robert Mueller, who investigated Trump and is now retired.
His trial was filed by Paul Clement, a former general concern of the George W. Bush era, making the last case the first truly bipartite push in the legal industry to challenge Trump’s political reprisals.
“While most of the disputes require a discovery to find the reason for reprisals, the order does not hide its intention to punish Wilmerhale for its past and current representations of customers before the courts of the nation and for its link perceived with the opinions that Mr. Mueller expressed as a special council,” the Clement team wrote in Wilmer on Friday.
Wilmer has employed senior officials from republican and democratic administrations in addition to Mueller and some of his deputies from the investigation in Russia. The company is known for its behind -the -scenes influence in Washington, but also has a large business portfolio.
A judge previously found policies For Perkins Coie, this would limit lawyers for the law firm to access a federal building and potentially punish their business customers who are also government entrepreneurs likely to be unconstitutional. Jenner faces very similar restrictions now, and this judge, Beryl Howell of the DC district court, is also likely to hear the emergency complaints of Jenner & Block.
Five executive decrees of Trump, born of political reprisals, against the main law firms in Washington, rocked the legal establishment and could reconfigure the way Washington does business, many law firms targeted in -depth links with federal agencies, the customers of the whole American company and the powerful leaders of the two political parties.
The White House published its decree against Jenner & Block on Tuesday, and Trump and his assistant pointed out that it was partly because of the company previously employed Andrew Weissmann, the Mueller’s survey of TV commentator.
While border associations condemned Trump’s actions as draconian rejection of the rule of law, many companies hesitated to take a publicly position, fearing to become a target.
A company, Paul, Weiss, Wharton, Rifkind & Garrison, concluded an agreement with Trump, and the New York Times reported another large law firm based in New York on Thursday negotiated discreetly.
This story has been updated with additional developments.