Keeping up with 2025 executive orders and related litigation – Michelle M. LaLonde, Michigan Bar Journal, October 2025. “One of the most memorable photographs from the 2025 presidential inauguration showed President Trump at the Resolute Desk with a large pile of binders as he signed new executive orders (EOs) targeting his highest-priority campaign issues. Since then, there have been many legal actions fighting these EOs, so keeping track of both the orders and the litigation relating to them is crucial for many attorneys. Attorneys in many areas of practice need to know how to keep up with the latest EOs, as these orders may impact the funding, operations, staff or rights of the companies, individuals, and organizations they represent. Those who typically practice outside of federal administrative law may be less familiar with researching EOs, beyond what they learned in law school. As a starting point, Black’s Law Dictionary defines an executive order as “[a]n order issued by or on behalf of the President, usually intended to direct or instruct the actions of executive agencies or government officials, or to set policies for the executive branch to follow that must be first published in the Federal Register to be valid.”