8 lawyers who decided not to work with Trump

Toensing is diGenova's wife, and like him, didn't take Trump's offer because she is reportedly representing former spokesman for Trump's legal team Mark Corallo, who is a witness in the Russia investigation.

Her representation of Corallo could potentially be seen as a conflict of interest, according to some scholars, and even the appearance of a conflict could be damaging to Trump's case.

Together with her husband, Toensing has frequently touted conspiracy theories in the media, and the pair were a major presence on cable TV during the Monica Lewinsky scandal during the presidency of former President Bill Clinton.

Ted Olson is a renowned lawyer who served as former President George W. Bush's solicitor general, and represented Bush in the landmark Supreme Court case that ultimately secured the presidency for him.

Olson has rebuked Trump personally twice in the media — once as he was under consideration to join Trump's team, and another time shortly after he rejected Trump's offer.

He criticized Trump's constantly shifting White House as chaotic, and had previously castigated the president for his actions on a 1992 terrorism law.

"This is turmoil, it's chaos, it's confusion, it's not good for anything," he said on MSNBC.

Emmet Flood is another renowned Washington lawyer, and represented Clinton during his impeachment process in the late 1990s.

He also worked in the White House counsel's office during the Bush administration, and at one point represented former Vice President Dick Cheney.

Flood had previously rejected another offer to work for Trump in the summer of 2017, according to The New York Times, and was in negotiations again this month to join his team.

Although Flood declined to say whether he would be taking Trump up on his offer, CNN reported that he rejected it.

Robert Bennett is a top defense lawyer who has also served as a federal prosecutor in the past, and his activities have ranged from representing companies in Securities Exchange Commission cases to working on congressional matters.

He is perhaps best known for being on the team that represented Clinton during the Lewinsky scandal. Bennett has also worked with numerous other big names in Washington from both parties, including Sen. John McCain and former Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford.

He too recently declined Trump's offer, according to CNN.

Robert Giuffra's main claim to fame has been his history of representing corporations like Volkswagen, and participating in law cases that arose out of the Enron scandal in the early 2000s.

Throughout his career, he has served as a lawyer in Congress, the White House, and the judicial branch.

According to the Washington Post and CNN, he rejected Trump's offer to join his team shortly after the president reached out to him about the matter.

Dan Webb is prominent private practice attorney who was at one point the US attorney in Chicago.

He is well known for successfully prosecuting former Admiral John Poindexter as part of the Iran-Contra affair in the 1980s, and has tried a number of other high-profile cases in the Chicago area.

He and his law partner Tom Buchanan confirmed they had rejected Trump's offer on Tuesday, citing "business conflicts."

"President Trump reached out to Dan Webb and Tom Buchanan to provide legal representation," they said in a statement. "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. They wish the president the best and believe he has excellent representation in Ty Cobb and Jay Sekulow."

Tom Buchanan is Webb's lesser-known partner in law. Like Webb, he has been active as an attorney in the Chicago area, and is the co-head of a task force on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act that deals with payments to foreign governments.

He and Webb both jointly declined Trump's offer this week, according to CNN and The Chicago Tribune.