"We've watched the recruiting timeline compress year after year, and at a certain point we had to ask ourselves: who does this really serve? Law students are being asked to make career-defining decisions with only one semester of grades and almost no exposure to practice."
Susman Godfrey made their fair share of Above the Law headlines this year for reminding the Trump administration that some firms still have a backbone. And after their bonus announcement, they're showing that fighting the good fight can pay out handsomely! The 2025 Law Firm Of The Year Award-winning firm is closing out a very successful year with six new partners and a whole lot of money to go around.
The president is abusing the powers of his office to wield the might of the executive branch in retaliation against organizations and people that he dislikes. Nothing in our constitution or laws grants a president such power; to the contrary, the specific provisions and overall design of our constitution were adopted in large measure to ensure that presidents cannot exercise arbitrary, absolute power in the way that the president seeks to do in these executive orders.
Trump's latest Executive Order is a political maneuver targeting Susman Godfrey, a law firm involved in significant legal battles and amicus briefs against his claims.