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Law firms that caved to Trump about to 'face plant' on national TV: legal expert

A legal expert predicts the elite law firms that cut deals with President Donald Trump are heading toward a humiliating public reckoning. Writing in a piece for her Substack newsletter on Saturday, lawyer and journalist Katie Phang said leaders of the nine Big Law firms that caved to Trump would "face plant on national television" if Democrats retake the…

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