Trump’s War on Big Law

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You’ll be forgiven if your heart isn’t breaking over the fate of the handful of elite law firms recently targeted by Donald Trump. So a few megarich corporations who help make mega-megarich corporations even richer stand to get a little less rich? We’ve got bigger problems.

But don’t skim past this one. You’ve heard the Shakespeare quote: “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” That line is sometimes misinterpreted as an expression of frustration directed at lawyers...