OpenAI’s legal department would be severely diminished if scores of OpenAI attorneys follow through with threats to leave the company and join ousted CEO Sam Altman at Microsoft.

The lawyers, many of them hired in just the last few months, say they’re prepared to quit unless the six-person OpenAI board resigns. The board outraged most of the company’s 770 rank-and-file workers by abruptly firing Altman Friday afternoon.