Legal Ethics Professors Amicus Brief in Support of Plaintiff

Key Excerpts

• Amici seek leave to file this brief because the resolution of this case has profound implications for the ability of the legal profession to regulate itself and, by extension, for the administration of justice in our nation’s legal system.
• In addition to the consequences for individual lawyers and law firms, the President’s practice of targeting lawyers who represent clients or causes he does not like will, if left unchecked, chip away at the foundations of the American legal system.
• Whatever law firms choose to do in response, these orders interfere with the capacity of lawyers at the targeted firms to fulfill their ethical obligations. In turn, these orders threaten to undermine the adversarial system of justice and the judiciary’s capacity to check unlawful executive actions.