Wake Up Call: Trump Jacks Up Legal Spending for Election Fights

Sept. 29, 2020, 12:32 PM UTC

In today’s column, Shearman & Sterling yesterday joined the Covid bonus bonanza; Jones Day and Kirkland & Ellis are among Big Law firm tenants in buildings minority-owned by President Trump; Atlanta-based Cox Enterprises Inc. promoted a longtime in-house leader to become its top lawyer, filling a job that became vacant in May; in South Carolina a government watchdog group and a lawyer are to suing to block two law firms from getting $75 million in legal fees from the government’s plutonium cleanup settlement; and Nelson Mullins’ Miami office hired a former litigator in the U.S. bankruptcy trustee’s office.

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