{"id":139823,"date":"2026-02-20T10:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T10:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/139823\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T10:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T10:45:07","slug":"nycs-new-top-lawyer-skeptical-of-big-law-firms-with-trump-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/139823\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC\u2019s New Top Lawyer Skeptical of Big Law Firms With Trump Deals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s newly installed head lawyer for the city, Steve Banks, is looking to build a more muscular Law Department that boosts the progressive mayor\u2019s agenda.<\/p>\n<p>But Big Law firms that made deals with the Trump administration aren\u2019t likely to be partners with the city. <\/p>\n<p>Asked if the city would work with firms that struck such agreements with the administration, he suggested in an interview with Bloomberg Law that those firms are not in a position to help with his goals: \u201cGiven the agreements that were made, there may not be the kind of legal assistance &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s newly installed head lawyer for the city, Steve Banks, is looking to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":{"0":"post-139823","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-city-news","12":"tag-ny"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}