Major International Law Firm Reaches Deal With White House, Becoming The Latest To Do So

Another major international law firm has reached a deal with President Donald Trump to dedicate at least 100 million in free legal services to causes such as supporting veterans and combating antisemitism, the White House announced Tuesday.

The agreement makes Willkie Farr Gallagher the third law firm in the last two weeks to cut a deal with the White House to avert sanctions from the U.S. government.

It was reached just two days after leaders at Willkie learned that the White House intended to issue a executive order against the firm, an action that could have carried "potentially grave consequences," according to an internal email from the firm's executive committee obtained by The Associated Press.

The resolution reflects the differing responses being taken by the legal community as Trump continues to target some of the world's most elite law firms and extract concessions from them, such as the renunciation of diversity, equity and inclusion considerations in hiring and promotion decisions. Many of the firms that have been the subject of Trump's executive orders are associated with lawyers who previously investigated him , either when he was president or between his terms in the White House.

Willkie is home to Doug Emhoff, the husband of 2024 Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, and Timothy Heaphy , who was chief investigative counsel to the House of Representatives committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol. The firm also represented two former Georgia election workers in a successful defamation lawsuit against former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani.