Perkins Coie risks losing clients over President Donald Trump’s threat to terminate federal contracts for companies doing business with the law firm.

The orders also may represent exceptional acts of retribution against lawyers who have crossed him in the past, they said.

President Donald Trump’s executive order targeting the prominent law firm Perkins Coie has rattled the legal community in Portland and beyond.

Many big corporate law firms are declining to help with public criticism and legal opposition to the second Trump administration, in the wake of executive orders punishing law firms with Democratic ties.