Students who graduate from our nation’s top law schools are too often faced with a choice between morality and prestige when making decisions about their career paths. When the best law schools facilitate a job search that feeds into the “Biglaw or bust” mentality, success is measured by the number of graduates who have secured positions at firms serving clients that represent the worst of the worst when it comes to our planet’s ongoing climate crisis.
A new report from Law Students for Climate Accountability set out to answer a simple question: how much do the Vault 100 firms contribute to climate change? The answer is, as you might imagine, a lot.
Biglaw firms continue to be a “hotbed of fossil fuel activity.” Here’s a breakdown of what that means: per LSCA, Vault 100 firms conducted 502 representations in cases exacerbating climate change, facilitated $3.05 trillion of fossil fuel transactions, and received millions upon millions in compensation for fossil fuel lobbying between 2017 and 2021.
Private funds’ in-house and external legal teams are stretched thin by growing legal demands. Firms need digital transformation to thrive.
“There will always be firms that represent Exxon, Shell or Chevron. “Stopping that is not our end goal,” second-year NYU Law student Nathaniel Waldman, a member of the LSCA leadership committee, told the American Lawyer. “What we do want to do is stigmatize that work because it is adding to the global...
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