When Trump first took office in 2017, attorneys at Big Law firms lent thousands of pro-bono hours to legal efforts to stymie the administration’s most controversial policies, including the travel ban that restricted entry to the U.S. from certain Muslim-majority countries.

Opinion: Zimmer Citron & Clarke's David Zimmer and Edwina Clarke say major law firms need to band together and speak out against Trump targeting lawyers—their fiduciary duty to clients complicates the issue,

The move by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission comes as the administration is taking aggressive steps to intimidate law firms.