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

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

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.

He did not graduate from law school but passed the bar after a period of self-study. He would go on to litigate some of the most high-profile cases of the 20th century. Among his clients were union activist Eugene Debs,

Trump’s campaign against the major law firms has tested the guardrails of the Constitution as much as any other action since Inauguration Day. Trump has declared his motive: He

In recent weeks, two large law firms reached settlements with the Trump administration that stunned the legal profession — the first with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, which pledged to commit $40 million in free legal work “to support the Administration’s initiatives,

The firm, Willkie Farr & Gallagher, also employs a top investigator for the congressional committee that documented President Trump’s role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

President Trump has taken aim at law firms that he believes have wronged him. Here's how they've responded.

On March 11, the courageous and skillful law firm Williams & Connolly filed a lawsuit on Perkins Coie’s behalf, seeking to enjoin the president’s order on constitutional grounds. At a hearing the next day,