The president has issued an executive order suspending security clearances for Paul Weiss.
The order also seeks to terminate government contracts "for which Paul Weiss has been hired to perform any service” - designed to discourage clients from working with the firm.
Paul Weiss is the latest major law firm to be hit by a Donald Trump executive order, as the president escalates his campaign against firms linked to investigations into his past conduct.
A new order issued on Friday suspends government security clearances for Paul Weiss employees and seeks to terminate government contracts "for which Paul Weiss has been hired to perform any service” - moves clearly designed to make clients think twice about working with the firm.
The measures are similar to those made against Perkins Coie and Covington & Burling, other Big Law firms Trump has recently targeted over their past work on politically sensitive cases.
Paul Weiss is being singled out over its ties to Mark Pomerantz, a former partner who played a key role in the Manhattan district attorney's case that led to Trump’s conviction last year for falsifying business records.
The firm’s client list includes major government contractors like Amazon, General Electric and Honeywell, according to Bloomberg Law, making the fallout from the order potentially highyl signficant for the firm.
The legal community is starting to push back.
Several hundred associates at top US firms - including Kirkland and Latham - have signed an open letter urging firm leaders to condemn what they describe as an “all-out attack” on the rule of law.
Link to the letter (and the list of signatories) here.
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