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.

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

U.S. President Donald Trump's targeting of major law firms over their diversity policies and political clients has earned condemnation from law professors, bar associations and a federal judge - but not,