Ed.
note:
Welcome
to
our
daily
feature,
Quote
of
the
Day.
It’s
wise
to
be
as
vague
as
possible,
which
explains
the
firms’
lack
of
any
effort
to
reduce
whatever
the
arrangement
is
to
writing.
If
you
start
negotiating
with
Trump,
then
you
wind
up
identifying
what
he
may
conclude
are
gaps
in
what
you’ve
got,
and
then
he
demands
more.
—
Stephen
Gillers,
a
professor
at
New
York
University
Law
School,
in
comments
given
to
Bloomberg
Law,
on
the
perhaps
intentionally
vague
pro
bono
payola
deals
that
nine
Biglaw
firms
signed
with
the
Trump
administration,
pledging
$940
million
in
free
legal
services.
Trump
has
yet
to
attempt
to
enforce
those
deals,
and
the
Biglaw
firms
in
question
aren’t
pushing
the
issue,
either.
Gillers
points
out
that
the
agreements’
vagueness
may
come
back
to
bite
the
law
firms,
noting,
“Trump
realized
in
the
midst
of
these
negotiations
that
he
might
want
to
use
the
work
of
these
law
firms
after
he’s
no
longer
president
in
situations
that
could
not
even
remotely
be
called
pro
bono.”
Staci
Zaretsky is
a
senior
editor
at
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Law,
where
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worked
since
2011.
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