Intel just agreed to give the federal government in about 10 resident ownership share. It is reportedly a joint share agreement that binds the federal government to vote with the board of directors, unless the board votes to undermine the agreement itself. The deal is a payout for the Chips Act, a financing of $ 280 billion to increase the domestic semiconductor industry. Biden -Administration pressed on for funding, Trump pressed on for Vig. Theoretically, the shareholder belongs to the government and trump personally, but we also have about it about Air Qatari one.
The company needed attorneys to protect its interests in entering into such an overview agreement so it turned to … an law firm who agreed to give Trump $ 100 million in free gifts in return to run an attack on their ability to remain in business. It is the kind of fact pattern that a professional responsibility professor could not put on an exam, or they would be laughed out of the academy: a sophisticated client, a well-heeled company and a high-stakes extotation efforts.
Trump gets flack from some Democrats clinging out that a Republican just went on to seize the means of production than any Fever Dreox Fox news ever cooked around Zohran Mamdani. But it assumes that the Trump administration is a guide by a “coherent financial vision” or “feeling of shame.”
To be honest, they always gave thought -offers like this very meaning. The federal government took an ownership interest in GM in exchange for its rescue under the Obama administration. As a consequence when the manufacturer came back, was the taxpayers much better off? For all frightening of socialism, the US economic system is already resting on capitalist gains and socialized losses. Taking an equity share lets the taxpayers in on the winnings as well. It also helps to avoid “picking winners and losers” if the benefits of government cash have to share a sample of their winnings with the public that their better managed spaces do not.
Honestly, that’s how any financially devastating stadium agreement has to be handled – If the owner wants a distribution for the team, the investment must pay off Direct And don’t trust some worn -out nonsense.
But that does not mean that offers should be negotiated by lawyers who have recently settled an extension bid for $ 100 million With the counterparty.
Intel is not a mother-and-pop-embrace who is happily unaware of his lawyers. It’s a sophisticated party knew The injury is $ 100 million in Hock to Trump administration. In fact, it probably counted on it.
The Trump administration went up to Intel and said, “Lovely little financing permit, you got there … Shame if anything happened to it,” and Intel turned immmondat to lawyers who already transitioned to a similar threat to counseling. It’s not because they were thoroughly impressed with the brilliant negotiation of the injury (if they were impressed with it … then it might explain that a rescue was needed). Like JD Vance, Yale Law’s sustained shame, already proven, Trump doesn’t care what you’ve done to him in the past as long as you’re willing to be afterwards today. The injured earned a lot of good will with the administration by coughing pro bono obligations. Good will that Intel would be abandoned to move on.
And Intel is exactly the excursion of the client rules confidence to make an informed exception.
While professional responsibility focuses primarily on the customer, it is also – at least something – a matter of protecting public confidence in the profession. Just because the customer can wive a conflict does not mean it is good for the legal industry to have businesses caused by the government Still unfulfilled Nine-digit settlements while apparently negotiating against it. This is how the public loses its already rock bottom -believer on lawyers.
Ideally, ethics rules should not just trigger to prevent mute customers from being fooled. They also need to hold Smart customers From normalization of corruption.
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