Two of the nation’s largest law firms are taking drastically different approaches to being targeted by President Donald Trump: acceptance and defiance.

Experts have warned that the president’s efforts threaten the ability of lawyers to do their jobs and private citizens to obtain legal counsel.

The chairman of a prominent law firm who cut a deal with President Trump to avert the consequences of an executive order told colleagues in an email that he did so because the order “could easily have destroyed our firm.