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Law Students for Climate Accountability Profile picture
@Ls4Ca
Oct 1, 2020 • 8 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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

ls4ca.org/s/Law-Firm-Cli…
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)

ls4ca.org/s/Law-Firm-Cli…

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Dec 2, 2021
The law firm Gibson Dunn has crossed every red line imaginable in their work shielding corporate polluters from climate accountability, attacking Indigenous rights, + persecuting @SDonziger.

Today we are formally launching a law student boycott of @gibsondunn #DoneWithDunn (1/7)
We and 87 law student orgs from across the country have called on Gibson Dunn to do the bare minimum for 8 months. They have refused.

We have no choice left but to refuse to be a part of Gibson Dunn’s unjust work. Sign the boycott letter here (2/7) tinyurl.com/boycottgibsond…
Gibson Dunn does an unbelievable amount of work harming the climate and Indigenous communities. They are the primary lawyers advancing the Dakota Access Pipeline's incursion on Native land. Gibson Dunn has worked to help Chevron evade climate accountability in 15 lawsuits. (3/7)
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Dec 1, 2021
Almost 8 months ago we called on @gibsondunn to do the absolute bare minimum: commit to some ethical standard for its fossil fuel work that isn't pure profit.

See below for all the ways we've given them a chance to respond. They've refused. So stay tuned for a new development👀
We wrote to Gibson Dunn. 87 law student organizations from around the country signed onto the letter, the largest law student mobilization targeting a law firm in recent memory. We emailed their entire law firm leadership. Gibson Dunn didn't respond
In case they're old-fashioned, we mailed the letter to them instagram.com/p/CNnMz-_H1qa/…
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Oct 20, 2020
Let's talk about legal ethics.

Many firms say that when they rep fossil fuel companies they're promoting access to representation. This is self-serving manipulation of legal ethics

What they are really doing is tipping the playing field further towards climate polluters (1/9)
Law firms choose their clients--no one makes them rep fossil fuel companies. Even for existing clients, ABA Rule 1.16 authorizes withdrawal if "the client insists upon taking action that the lawyer considers repugnant or with which the lawyer has a fundamental disagreement" (2/9)
Lawyers of conscience should have a fundamental disagreement with the fossil fuel industry's business model of condemning future generations to suffer on an increasingly uninhabitable planet (3/9)
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