The Great Law Firm Rebellion Sees Young Associates Stage Unprecedented Exodus Over Trump Deals

In the marble-lined corridors of legal power, a rebellion is brewing over the ‘Trump deals’ being made by biglaw firms targeted by the administration in recent weeks.

Associates at two of America’s most prestigious law firms are doing what many might have thought to have been the unthinkable—resigning from coveted positions that pay north of $220,000 annually to protest their firms’ Faustian bargains with President Trump, marking perhaps the most significant crisis of conscience Big Law has faced in a generation.