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Dozens of BigLaw firms are getting paycheck protection loans; which ones made the list?

By Debra Cassens Weiss

July 6, 2020, 5:27 pm CDT

Boies Schiller Flexner is among dozens of larger and more profitable law firms that received paycheck protection loans.

Boies Schiller received between $5 million and $10 million, report Bloomberg Law, Law.com and Law360. The New York Times and the Washington Post also mentioned law firms in their coverage of the loans.

A law firm that has represented President Donald Trump, Kasowitz Benson Torres, also received a loan through the program.

A spokesperson for Kasowitz Benson Torres told the New York Times and the Washington Post that the loan, combined with expense cutbacks, “enabled us to preserve the jobs of our hundreds of employees at full salary and benefits without interruption.”

Other law firms that have worked for Trump received loans, the National Law Journal reports. They include Harder, which represents Trump and his brother in lawsuits against publishers and media companies; Zeichner Ellman & Krause, where Trump’s former impeachment lawyer Robert Ray is a partner; Spears & Imes, which represented Trump in a fraud case; and the American Center for Law and Justice, where Trump’s former impeachment lawyer Jay Sekulow is chief counsel.

According to the articles, other law firms receiving loans of up to $10 million include:

• Adams and Reese (Bloomberg Law, Law.com, Law360)

• Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis (Bloomberg Law, Law.com, Law360)

• Archer (Law360)

• Armstrong Teasdale (Bloomberg Law, Law.com, Law360)

• Arnall Golden Gregory (Bloomberg Law)

• Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud & Romo (Law360)

• Balch & Bingham (Law360)

• Barclay Damon (Law360)

• Bass, Berry & Sims (Law360)

• Becker & Poliakoff (Law360)

• Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff (Bloomberg Law, Law.com, Law360)

• Beveridge & Diamond (The New York Times)

• Bond, Schoeneck & King (Bloomberg Law, Law.com, Law360)

• Bowman and Brooke (Law360)

• Bremer Whyte Brown & O’Meara (Law360)

• Buchalter (Bloomberg Law)

• Butler Snow (Bloomberg Law, Law.com, Law360)

• Cipriani & Werner (Law360)

• Cole Schotz (Bloomberg Law, Law.com, Law360)

• Cole, Scott & Kissane (Law.com, Law360)

• Cullen and Dykman (Law360)

• Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle (Bloomberg Law)

• Day Pitney (Bloomberg Law, Law.com, Law360)

• Farella Braun and Martel (Law360)

• Fredrikson & Byron (Law360)

• Gibbons (Bloomberg Law, Law.com, Law360)

• GrayRobinson (Bloomberg Law, Law.com, Law360)

• Gunster (Law360)

• Hall Booth Smith (Law360)

• Harris Beach (Law360)

• Hinckley, Allen & Snyder (Bloomberg Law, Law.com)

• Hodgson Russ (Bloomberg Law, Law.com, Law360)

• Honigman (Bloomberg Law, Law.com, Law360)

• Hughes Hubbard & Reed (Bloomberg Law, Law.com, Law360)

• Ice Miller (Bloomberg Law, Law.com, Law360)

• Kelley Drye & Warren (Bloomberg Law, Law.com, Law360)

• Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear (Bloomberg Law, Law.com, Law360)

• Kobre & Kim (Bloomberg Law, Law.com)

• Kubicki Draper (Law360)

• Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie (Bloomberg Law, Law.com, Law360)

• Manning & Kass (Law360)

• Maynard Cooper & Gale (Law360)

• McAfee & Taft (Law360)

• McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter (Law.com, Law360)

• McGlinchey Stafford (Law360)

• McKool Smith (Law360)

• Miles & Stockbridge (Bloomberg Law, Law.com, Law360)

• Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone (Bloomberg Law, Law.com, Law360)

• Morgan & Morgan (Law360)

• Morris, Manning & Martin (Bloomberg Law, Law.com, Law360)

• Morrison Mahoney (Law360)

• Nexsen Pruet (Law360)

• Nossaman (Law360)

• Offit Kurman (Law360)

• Parker Poe (Law360)

• Phelps Dunbar (Bloomberg Law, Law.com, Law360)

• Porter Wright Morris & Arthur (Bloomberg Law, Law.com, Law360)

• Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch (Bloomberg Law, Law.com)

• Pryor Cashman (Bloomberg Law, Law.com, Law360)

• Rivkin Radler (Law360)

• Robins Kaplan (Bloomberg Law, Law.com, Law360)

• Robinson & Cole (Bloomberg Law, Law.com, Law360)

• Roetzel & Andress (Law360)

• Rutan & Tucker (Bloomberg Law, Law.com, Law360)

• Schiff Hardin (Bloomberg Law, Law.com, Law360)

• Sherman & Howard (Bloomberg Law, Law.com, Law360)

• Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick (Bloomberg Law, Law.com, Law360)

• Shutts & Bowen (Bloomberg Law)

• SmithAmundsen (Law360)

• Smith, Gambrell & Russell (Bloomberg Law, Law.com, Law360)

• Spencer Fane (Bloomberg Law, Law.com, Law360)

• Stroock & Stroock & Lavan (Bloomberg Law, Law.com, Law360)

• Sullivan & Worcester (Bloomberg Law)

• Thompson Coe, Cousins & Irons (Law360)

• Thompson & Knight (Bloomberg Law, Law.com, Law360)

• Tucker Ellis (Law360)

• Ulmer & Berne (Law360)

• Van Ness Feldman (The New York Times)

• Von Briesen & Roper (Law360)

• Warner Norcross and Judd (Law360)

• White and Williams (Law360)

• Wiley Rein (Bloomberg Law, Law.com, Law360)

• Williams Mullen (Law360)

• Wood Smith Henning & Berman (Law360)

The loans are fully forgiven if at least 60% of the money is used for payroll and if the rest is used for rent, mortgage interest and utilities over an eight-week period after the loan is made.

See also:

ABAJournal.com: “Many law firms that applied for paycheck protection loans are still waiting; Texas lawyer sues”

Updated July 7 at 9:45 a.m. to add more law firms to the list.