Perkins Coie LLP v. U.S. Department of Justice

Today, we joined 507 firms across the country in urgently asking a federal court to act to cease an unprecedented abuse of executive power. In filing this amicus brief, we supported Perkins Coie’s motion for a permanent injunction of the March 6, 2025 Executive Order that violates the First, Fifth, and Sixth Amendment guarantees as well as bedrock separation of power principles.

If Trump’s executive order punishing law firms for who they represent is allowed to stand, some litigants will have greater difficulty accessing legal representation. This will increase the number of poorly represented or entirely unrepresented parties, impose inefficiencies and hardships on the judiciary, diminish the quality of judicial decision-making, and dent public confidence in our system.