THREAD: We just released the Law Firm Climate Change Scorecard, the 1st ever study of top law firms' role in the climate crisis.
A large majority of top law firms are on the wrong side of history--and we have the data to prove it (1/8)
#ClimateScore
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Elite law firms lend far more support to clients driving the climate crisis than clients addressing it: ten times more litigation, five times more transactions, and five times more lobbying (2/8)
This work has huge climate impacts. Law firms write the contracts for fossil fuel projects, lobby to weaken environmental regulations, and help fossil fuel companies evade accountability in court
Law firms are an indispensable pillar of support for the fossil fuel industry (3/8)
The Law Firm Climate Change Scorecard shows which firms are doing the most to accelerate the climate crisis: each of the top 100 law firms gets a #ClimateScore between A and F. You can also search each firm on ls4ca.org for a detailed description of their work (4/8)
Among Vault 100 firms, @PaulWeissLLP did as much anti-climate litigation as 62 firms combined, @AllenOvery facilitated more fossil fuel transactions than 78 firms combined and @HoganLovells did more fossil fuel lobbying than 92 firms combined. No surprise, they all get an F (5/8)
Law firms choose their clients. There is nothing ethical about representing multibillion dollar fossil fuel companies that already have in-house lawyers. It only tips the playing field further towards climate polluters and away from a livable future (6/8)
Law students don't want to work for firms that will condemn our generation to an increasingly uninhabitable planet in exchange for a quick buck. If law firms insist on taking on fossil fuel clients, they better get ready to lose recruits (7/8)
Our research left no doubt that the legal industry is on the wrong side of history, so we decided to launch LSCA to take on the firms profiting off the climate crisis.
Read the Scorecard, go to ls4ca.org, and let's get to work (8/8)
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