Early last year, Trump was having problems with his legal team and was casting about for new representation. In March, after word got out that the president’s campaign tried to hire Webb and one of the firm’s Washington-based attorneys, the firm’s public relations team issued a statement: “President Trump reached out to Dan Webb and Tom Buchanan to provide legal representation. They were unable to take on the representation due to business conflicts. However they consider the opportunity to represent the President to be the highest honor and they sincerely regret that they cannot do so.”