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.