Perkins Coie, which represented Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign and collaborated with an opposition research firm that created a discredited dossier against Trump; and Covington & Burling,
Which pro bono provided legal services to former special counsel Jack Smith, who indicted Trump on several occasions.
The executive orders made it more difficult for the companies to serve customers by suspending their security clearances and preventing them from entering certain government facilities.
Most significantly, the orders said that the law firms’ clients’ government contracts should also be examined. In a memo to staff members that was released shortly after he wrote it, Brad Karp,
The Paul Weiss chair who came under fire for making a deal with Trump last week, referenced that threat. “The executive order could easily have destroyed our firm,” Karp said.
“In particular, it threatened our clients with the loss of their government contracts, and the loss of access to the government, if they continued to use the firm as their lawyers.”
