For attorneys in practice areas from health care to financial services to white-collar defense, Donald Trump’s unexpected victory at the polls Tuesday night will probably mean more business—at least at first. On Wednesday, firms in California and elsewhere began trying to assess how Trump’s tenure in the Oval Office will affect their bottom lines over the long term.

One of the issues Trump was most adamant about during his campaign was his opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact. Harry Clark, the chair of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe’s international trade and compliance group, said he doesn’t expect a drop in his overall workload, or for the United States to participate in many multilateral trade agreements under the new president.

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