Fears that competitors could take its top rainmaking talent added to the law firm’s worries about a Trump executive order that targeted it.

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.

Trump’s administration has been targeting law firms — around two dozen so far. Just don't ask any of them to talk about it.