Big Law’s Trump Deals Escape NY Disciplinary Probe: The Brief

MAJOR LAW FIRMS’ deals with President Donald Trump escaped an investigation from a New York court’s disciplinary body for lawyers, Roy Strom reports.

• A New York Supreme Court committee last month declined to take up a complaint against nine firms that pledged nearly $1 billion in free legal services to the White House, according to documents obtained by Bloomberg Law. The committee’s response has not previously been reported.
• The complaint, filed by a group of law professors, accused the firms of violating ethics rules by “capitulating” to Trump’s “bullying.” They had “a choice to either litigate, as other firms did, ...