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South Carolina-based attorney Butch Bowers will represent Trump at his 2nd impeachment trial, Sen. Lindsey Graham says South Carolina-based attorney Butch Bowers will represent Trump at his 2nd impeachment trial, Sen. Lindsey Graham says Grace PanettaJan 22, 2021, 04:22 IST Outgoing US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump speak to the media depart the White House in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2021. - President Trump travels his Mar-a-Lago golf club residence in Palm Beach, Florida, and will not attend the inauguration for President-elect Joe Biden.Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty ...

Many of Trump's former allies are now distancing themselves from him, which had initially cast doubt on who would defend the ex-president.

In the week after the Capitol Riots, corporate giants including Marriott International, Dow, JPMorgan, American Express, Nike, Google, Facebook and Microsoft have publicly declared they are pausing contributions from their political action committees (PACS).

January 7, 2021 at 1:29 PM Shares1.3k Jerome Marcus represents Trump’s reelection campaign in Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. v. Philadelphia County Board of Elections (the case Porter Wright already withdrew from). But if his latest motion is granted, he won’t anymore. That’s interesting enough, I guess. But on the day after an attempted coup, it really doesn’t pass muster — after all, lots of attorneys are distancing themselves from election lawsuits like rats off a sinking ship. It’s Marcus’s reason for wanting out that really made us take notice: The Undersigned respect...

December 30, 2020 at 2:36 PM Shares0 As part of Above the Law’s 2020 in review each of the editors are throwing together our own list of top stories of 2020. Of course, 2020 was a dumpster fire, so almost all of the stories on my personal list are a reminder of awful. With that depressing note, here it is: my top stories of 2020. #10 Lawyers love a good ranking, especially an unexpected one. Law school rankings — at least at the top of the list — tend to be pretty static, the Top 14 law schools have pretty much always been the same. So a new ranking that upends that tradition — well,...