More than 500 law firms have signed on to an amicus brief filed Friday in support of Perkins Coie’s challenge to President Donald Trump’s executive order targeting the firm.
While a majority of the signatories are small and midsized firms, about a dozen Am Law 200 firms, including eight Am Law 100 firms, have signed on to the brief as well. The big firm names include Arnold & Porter; Freshfields US; Covington & Burling; Crowell & Moring; Davis Wright Tremaine; Foley Hoag; Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr; Jenner & Block; Manatt, Phelps & Phillips; Munger, Tolles & Olson; Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler; Susman Godfrey; Stoel Rives; Hanson Bridgett; and Fenwick & West, breaking the wall of silence dominating the Am Law 200.