Despite legal setbacks, the Trump administration appeared to be moving forward with its campaign against elite law firms that have chosen to fight the president’s executive orders that threaten to upend their business.

Two of those firms, WilmerHale and Jenner & Block, notified the courts this week that the Justice Department had recently revoked security clearances held by lawyers on their staff, a move that significantly curtails the types of cases and clients the firms can attract.

The suspension of clearances is just one of the punishing provisions contained in a series of nearly identical executive orders issued by President Trump in March as part of a broader effort to bend the legal community to his will. A number of firms cut deals with Mr. Trump in order to avoid becoming subject to such directives.

The handful of firms that did not make deals — and were then singled out in orders that accused them of working against the country’s national interest — sued, arguing that the orders amount to blatantly illegal retaliation for representing clients and employing lawyers the president opposes politically.

In at least one instance, a federal judge has agreed, bypassing a trial and permanently blocking the government from enforcing the terms of an order targeting the firm Perkins Coie. In the cases involving WilmerHale and Jenner & Block, judges have temporarily halted the Trump administration from implementing the orders aimed at them while litigation plays out.

Even so, Paul Clement, a lawyer for WilmerHale, said in a filing that two of its lawyers had received letters informing them that their security clearances had been suspended.