Brown, Goldstein & Levy joined 841 of the nation’s leading law firms in an amicus brief supporting Perkins Coie LLP, Jenner & Block LLP, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, and Susman Godfrey LLP in their ongoing battle against the Trump Administration’s unconstitutional and retaliatory executive orders targeting them. The brief was filed in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on April 3, 2026.
The amicus brief addresses the broader implications of these executive orders for the legal profession. It emphasizes that the justice system depends on lawyers’ ability to represent clients without fear of government retaliation, regardless of the client or cause. In urging for affirmance of the lower court decisions, the brief asks the appellate court to reject executive action that undermines the independence of the bar.
The targeted law firms successfully challenged the executive orders in district courts last year. BGL was one of the more than 500 law firms to support Perkins Coie in its lawsuit combatting the President’s March 6, 2025, Executive Order “Addressing Risks from Perkins Coie LLP.” The Executive Order directs executive-branch officials to take numerous actions negatively targeting Perkins Coie and its personnel, including stripping them of security clearances and government contracts, and barring them from federal property, which would threaten the survival of any law firm.
BGL remains committed to standing up to the administration’s attacks on the rule of law and our democracy. We represent fired federal workers challenging the administration’s mass layoffs and military families whose medical coverage for their transgender dependents was stripped from them by a Trump administration directive. When the EPA terminated millions of dollars in grants to the Baltimore-based Green & Healthy Homes Initiative, BGL successfully fought back and got the funding restored. BGL also won a temporary restraining order on behalf of three transgender women, preventing the Bureau of Prisons from implementing a federal executive order to move all transgender women to men’s facilities and stop their hormone treatment.
BGL has also defended the critical role of the legal profession in protecting the Constitution and rule of law by joining over 3,000 individuals and organizations in the legal community in signing an open letter urging the Attorney General to oppose the Trump Administration’s egregious attacks on the legal profession.
Managing partner Jessie Weber has been vocal in her encouragement of others in the legal profession—especially those in larger law firms—to stand up against the administration and fight back when she was interviewed on Amicus, Slate’s legal podcast and by The Daily Record last year.
Founded in 1982, Brown, Goldstein & Levy is a law firm based in Baltimore, Maryland, with an office in Washington, D.C. The firm is nationally recognized in a wide variety of practice areas, including complex civil and commercial litigation, civil rights, health care, family law, and criminal defense. Above all else, Brown, Goldstein & Levy is a client-centered law firm that brings decades of experience and passionate, effective advocacy to your fight for justice.