The Latest Breaking News from Perkins Coie

Trump sued by two law firms as another makes deal to avoid being targeted

Jenner & Block and WilmerHale seek to stop executive orders that would halt business with government

The Guardian - US · Mar 28, 2025

‘A capitalistic cowardice’: big law firms being threatened by Trump face pressure to speak out

Trump signed executive orders aimed at firms challenging his administration’s priorities, roiling the legal community

The Guardian - US · Mar 26, 2025

‘The authoritarian playbook’: Trump targets judges, lawyers … and law itself

Attacks on key US institutions seek to stifle dissent, exact revenge and subordinate them to the president, experts say

The Guardian - US · Mar 24, 2025

Trump confirms retribution campaign against law firms that clash with his agenda

The president says his administration is ‘going after’ law firms he claims are ‘dishonest’ and ‘bad for the country’

The Independent UK · Mar 9, 2025

Trump hit a law firm with an executive order severely limiting the government from working with it. The same firm represented Hillary Clinton's campaign

A spokesperson for the law firm called it “patently unlawful.”

Fortune · Mar 7, 2025

Trump Using Exec Orders to 'Scare' Law Firms Away From Representing His Rivals, Former US Attorney Says

A former US Attorney is claiming that executive orders by the Trump administration to bar law firms from working with the federal government are seeking to scare them

Latin Times · Mar 7, 2025

Trump's Executive Order Strips Security Clearances From Lawyers At Democrat-Linked Firm Perkins Coie

"This is an absolute honor to sign. What they've done is, it's just terrible," Trump said as he signed the order. "Weaponization — you could say weaponization against a political opponent — and it should never be allowed to happen again."

International Business Times · Mar 7, 2025

DEI opponents are using a 1866 Civil Rights law to challenge equity policies in the workplace

Opponents of diversity programs are increasingly banking on an 1866 civil rights law meant to protect Black people from economic exclusion as a way to challenge corporate diversity and equity policies as well as funding to Black-owned businesses

The Independent UK · Jan 14, 2024

The Next Target in the War on Affirmative Action? Law Firms

The move to weed out equitable hiring is part of a much longer history of exclusion in both the US and Canada

The Walrus · Oct 13, 2023

China tells foreign law professors to prove they’ll obey Xi

China appears to be requiring foreign law professors to submit their syllabi to ensure they are following a doctrine President Xi Jinping has been pressing across the nation’s society to cement his control.

Tribune News Service · Mar 4, 2023