The law firm’s chairman, Brad Karp, capitulated to the president’s threats. The descendants of the man who wrote its high-minded principles told Mr. Karp that he had betrayed them.

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

President Trump has taken aim at law firms that he believes have wronged him. Here's how they've responded.

The head of law firm Paul Weiss sent a lengthy email to staffers defending the firm's negotiated deal with President Trump. It's not clear it worked.

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.

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.

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.

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.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced that he had reached an agreement with the prominent law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher — which employs Doug Emhoff, former vice president Kamala Harris’s husband — making it the third firm to strike a deal with him in as many weeks.