Note from Elie 4/3: Trump’s Blacklisted Law Firms: Surrender or Fight?

The Counsel

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Politics, News

4.6 • 848 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Elie Honig is a former Assistant U.S. Attorney and co-chief of the organized crime unit at the Southern District of New York, where he prosecuted more than 100 mobsters, including members of La Cosa Nostra, and the Gambino and Genovese crime families. He went on to serve as Director of the Department of Law and Public Safety at New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice. He is currently Special Counsel at Lowenstein Sandler and a CNN legal analyst. For a transcript of Elie’s note and the full archive of contributor notes, head to CAFE.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.6	Hey, everyone, Ellie here wishing you a happy Friday.
0:34.5	Well, I'm going to talk this week about the targeting of various law firms by
0:39.7	Donald Trump. As you'll see, I think it's a very important, interesting, and complex issue.
0:44.7	Let me just say, before we get in by way of disclosure, I worked at one of the targeted firms,
0:49.7	Covington and Burling. It was my first job out of law school from 2000 until 2004 when I left to go to the
0:55.8	SD&Y. I had a great professional and personal experience. I have lifelong friends there,
1:02.9	and I still feel some sense of loyalty to the firm. So I'll tell you that. You can factor that
1:07.7	in however you'd like. I also have good friends or medium friends at every
1:11.7	one of the targeted firms. There's sort of a limited universe of these elite law firms where people
1:16.7	tend to go after they leave the Justice Department or SD&Y. So we all kind of know each other. So again,
1:21.6	factor that in as you will. I wasn't sure if I wanted to say anything about this, but I can now
1:27.2	because it's already
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