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Law Firms That Settled With Trump Are Asked to Help on Trade Deals

14 août 2025 à 08:43
Boris Epshteyn, a personal lawyer for President Trump, connected two firms — Kirkland & Ellis and Skadden Arps — to the Commerce Department.

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Kirkland & Ellis is one of several law firms that reached deals with the Trump administration to head off a crackdown.

Harvard Nears a Deal With the Trump Administration to Restore Funding

A potential $500 million settlement would end a monthslong battle that pitted the nation’s wealthiest school against the Trump administration’s extraordinary crackdown on higher education.

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Harvard is the only university that has sued the Trump administration over the cancellation of its research funding.

Trump’s Deal-Making With Other Elite Schools Scrambles Harvard Negotiations

The university was open to spending $500 million, but a $50 million settlement with Brown has prompted new debates in Cambridge.

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Harvard officials have been sensitive to the possibility that a deal with the government would be seen as surrendering to the president and offering him a political gift.
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