Kaiser Blog

Most lawyers have been there: you do not want to continue representing a client, but the rules of professional conduct do not require you to withdraw. You might regret taking on the matter for any number of reasons—you may realize that the matter will not be profitable, the client may be unpleasant and difficult to […]

On March 31, 2025, The Wall Street Journal published this Op-Ed by Daniel Huff, an attorney for the first Trump administration and the House and Senate judiciary Committees, in which Mr. Huff wrote that the Trump administration can and should deem recent court orders as invalid and unenforceable because the courts didn’t order plaintiffs to […]

The reaction to President Trump’s latest memorandum attacking lawyers and law firms has been swift and strong across the legal industry. The memo, issued Saturday, March 22, titled “Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court,” has been condemned widely as a further threat to the rule of law and the role of […]

Across the country, non-profits, labor unions, private individuals, state governments, and more are filing for emergency relief in federal court. They’re asking for injunctions—court orders to stop what they perceive as unconstitutional actions by the Trump administration. The goal in the earliest stages of these suits is to “stop the bleeding”—that is, to get temporary […]