Democratic lawmakers are pressing six major U.S. law firms to explain their dealings with President Donald Trump after four of them offered concessions to his administration to avoid punishing executive orders.

The law firm’s chairman, Brad Karp, capitulated to the president’s threats. The descendants of the man who wrote its high-minded principles told Mr. Karp that he had betrayed them.

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.