TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Julia Wilburn on Apr 15, 2025

Houston-based Susman Godfrey is the latest "Big Law" firm to be targeted by an executive order from the Trump administration. The firm represented Dominion Voting Systems in defamation cases related to the 2020 election, according to Reuters. The new executive order suspends any security clearances held by Susman Godfrey's 170 lawyers, restricts access to government buildings and threatens to cancel federal contracts held by firm clients. Bloomberg Law reports that the firm on Monday challenged the executive order, and that today a judge temporarily barred the administration from enforcing the order. In other legal actions, five firms — Kirkland & Ellis, Allen Overy Shearman Sterling, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, Latham & Watkins, and Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft — reached deals with the administration to provide upwards of $600 million in pro bono work. The Hill has more details of those agreements.