For a firm whose media coverage is normally confined to the business pages, it’s been a challenging year and half for Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.

The firm’s decision to work with Paul Manafort on behalf of Ukraine’s government beginning in 2012, and especially its failure to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act for that work, set in place a chain of events leading to a stream of headlines—not to mention legal exposure—related to special counsel Robert Mueller III’s prosecution of Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman.