Wake Up Call: Law Firms Eye “Financial Bonanza” From Relationship With Trump: Report

• Revolving doors between government and Big Law firms are nothing new, but the Trump administration is taking the cozy arrangement to new extremes, according to a new report by watchdog organization Public Citizen. The report says two firms, Jones Day and Kirkland & Ellis, have a total 23 of their alumni in the administration between them, giving their corporate clients “unparalleled access and influence” in the administration. The firms and their “revolvers” will eventually reap a “financial bonanza” from the arrangement, an editor of the report said. ( BLB )

• President Donald Trump wants Peter C. Wright, managing counsel at the Dow Chemical ...