In its latest climate scorecard, Czarnek’s group calculated that Paul Weiss—which scored an “F” grade for its work involving climate change—topped all other Vault 100 firms in the number of cases in which it represented fossil fuel companies between 2019 and 2023.

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 executive order put the firm at risk of a catastrophic ‘partner run’ and a death spiral.

A U.S. judge on Friday said he is inclined to temporarily block Republican President Donald Trump's administration from enforcing his order targeting prominent Washington law firm WilmerHale over its work for Democrats and its connection to a special counsel who investigated him.

A law firm filed suit against the Trump administration seeking to block an executive order signed last week that targeted its attorneys' security clearances.

Trump escalated his targeting of Big Law firms with new executive order Thursday revoking security clearance and contracts for WilmerHale.

Federal judges dealt twin blows to President Trump’s retaliation campaign on Friday by issuing temporary restraining orders blocking much of his executive orders targeting two major law firms that participated in investigations of him,

Jenner & Block and WilmerHale had employees linked to the Mueller investigation, which provoked Trump in part to punish them.

Alongside the “Signalgate” scandal this week, much of the business world was talking of something else: law firm Paul Weiss’s decision to capitulate and cut a deal after coming under attack by Donald Trump.