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

An executive facing federal bribery charges fired his lawyers at Paul Weiss days after President Donald Trump targeted the firm in an executive order.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he is withdrawing an executive order that targeted law firm Paul Weiss, saying the firm "acknowledged the wrongdoing" of an attorney who investigated the president and has pledged $40 million in free legal work to support the administration.

Pres. Trump is targeting law firms for employing attorneys who previously worked on cases involving the president. Katie Phang is joined by Atty. Rachel Cohen, a former Skadden Arps associate who resigned in protest of the firm's handling of threats from Trump.

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.

Jenner & Block and WilmerHale are among several powerful firms President Donald Trump targeted after they challenged him in court or employed people who investigated him.

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,

The firm’s biggest clients—including Amazon and Boeing—are staying despite an executive order that targeted the firm, which has Democratic ties.