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
And we literally showed up at their office and hand-delivered our letter. Throughout all of this, @gibsondunn has refused to say A SINGLE THING they would not do if a fossil fuel company paid them enough. But we're more determined than ever
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.
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)
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)
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)