This is Fresh Air. I'm Terry Gross. You may not be familiar with the law firm Jones Day,

but that firm was embedded in the Trump presidential campaigns and former and future lawyers from Jones Day were embedded in Trump's administration.

Partners in the firm left to become Trump's White House Council, his solicitor general,

and to take high-ranking positions in the Justice Department and several federal agencies.

The firm helped reshape the Supreme Court and the Federal Appeals Courts, pushing them to the right,

while also helping the Trump administration win many cases in those courts.

It reshaped federal agencies while advancing the conservative goal of deregulation.

My guest, David Enrich, has written a new book about Jones Day called,

Servants of the Damned, Giant Law Firms, Donald Trump, and the Corruption of Justice.

He says, for much of Jones Day's history, it was a juggernaut in the field of corporate litigation.

It raked in billions a year and fees from tobacco, opioid gun, and oil companies,

among many other giant corporations in need of a state of the art defense.

David Enrich's previous book, Dark Towers, Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an epic trail of destruction,

was about the bank that became famous for financial scandals,

and loaned Trump about $2 billion when no other bank would touch him because of his defaults and lawsuits.

Enrich is the New York Times Business Investigations Editor.

Before we begin, just for disclosure, Jones Day is an NPR underwriter and their underwriting credit has been heard on our show.

David Enrich, welcome back to Fresh Air. I learned so much from your book. Thank you.

Give us a sense of how embedded Jones Day lawyers,

and I should say these are lawyers who left the firm to work in the Trump administration.

How embedded were they in the administration?

Name some of the many positions held by Jones Day former lawyers.

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