Fears that competitors could take its top rainmaking talent added to the law firm’s worries about a Trump executive order that targeted it.

A client of Paul Weiss has fired the U.S. law firm in a criminal case in New Jersey, citing U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order that targeted the firm over its political clients and its internal diversity policies.

The capitulation by one of the top U.S. firms reflects deep worries that being threatened by the president could lead to financial ruin.

None of the top 20 law firms in the US have so far offered their “unconditional support” to an effort by Perkins Coie to fight sanctions imposed by the Trump administration. Organisers of an amicus brief in support of Perkins Coie’s lawsuit are struggling to convince America’s most powerful law firms to sign up amid concerns they will face retaliation by the Trump administration,

The president is using executive orders in an attempt to bleed lawyers who have displeased him — and some are choosing appeasement over courtroom battles.

A federal court partially granted Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP's request for a temporary restraining order (TRO) and injunctive relief on Friday, blocking §§ 3 and 5 of President Donald