I don’t have a large budget for outside counsel, but I definitely won’t be spending it with law firms who don’t stand up for themselves in the face of injustice," Ray Everett, general counsel for health care at TopCon Corp.

Big Law firms often lend expensive legal firepower to civil liberties organizations suing the government. Trump doesn't like that.

Powerful Wall Street law firm Paul Weiss faced heavy criticism on Friday over a deal it struck with the White House to escape an executive order imperiling the firm's business, even as some lawyers said the firm faced few other options.

A day after President Donald Trump announced that Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison chair Brad Karp had agreed to a deal to rescind an executive order, the law firm was getting pummeled with criticism for capitulating to the president.

Willkie Farr & Gallagher is committing at least $100 million in pro bono work to causes aligned to “conservative ideals,” President Donald Trump said Tuesday.

The deal is similar to ones struck with Mr. Trump over the past two weeks by the firms Paul Weiss and Skadden Arps.

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

NYU legal ethics professor Stephen Gillers says the specific promises in Paul Weiss’ agreement with Trump aren’t objectionable on close review, especially when weighed against the possibly existential cost of litigating.