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Law Students for Climate Accountability
@Ls4Ca
Holding the legal industry accountable for its role in the climate crisis | Building a legal industry committed to a just, livable future
Dec 2, 2021 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
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…
Dec 1, 2021 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
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
Oct 20, 2020 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
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)
Oct 1, 2020 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
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)