You traveled to Washington to surrender before you had even begun to fight," the family of the late Judge Simon Rifkind wrote to the chairman of Paul Weiss.

A fourth major U.S. law firm, Milbank, reached an agreement on Wednesday with President Donald Trump, who has targeted other firms with punitive executive orders, in a deal disclosed a day after the firm of former Vice President Kamala Harris' husband struck its own pact.

On March 27, Trump ordered the federal government to stop working with Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP (WilmerHale)—suspending the law firm’s security clearances, directing federal agencies to terminate contracts they have with the firm, and limiting WilmerHale employees’ access to government buildings.