You traveled to Washington to surrender before you had even begun to fight," the family of the late Judge Simon Rifkind wrote to the chairman of Paul Weiss.

President Trump has issued executive orders that seek to punish major law firms involved in legal challenges to his second-term agenda.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order targeting another large law firm, this time Susman Godfrey, on accusations of weaponizing the U.S. legal system.

As Willkie Farr & Gallagher learned, cutting a deal with the White House can avert a financially punitive executive order. But doing so can draw internal rebukes and external criticism.

It’s the sixth presidential action against a large law firm, with the president signing executive orders against Perkins Coie; Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison; Jenner & Block; and Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr. He also signed a presidential memo against Covington & Burling, suspending a partner’s security clearances.