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Biglaw Firms Draw Protesters Over Their Work Driving Climate Change – Above the Law

Thanks
to
the
dedicated
work
of

Law
Students
for
Climate
Accountability
,
we
know
that
Biglaw
firms
continue
to
be
a
“hotbed
of
fossil
fuel
activity.”
According
to
the
group’s
fifth
annual

Climate
Scorecard
,
Biglaw
firms
received
grades
of
“A”
to
“F”
based
on
their
work

and
two
separate
environmental
groups
are
now
protesting
outside
of
the
offices
of
two
firms
that
received
“F”
grades.

Members
of
Lawyers
Are
Responsible
(LAR)
and
Fossil
Free
London
recently
staged
a
“climate
crisis
exhibition”
outside
of
the
London
offices
of
Akin
Gump
and
A&O
Shearman.
As
noted
by
LSCA,
Akin
earned
$7.92
million
from
fossil
fuel
lobbying
between
2019
and
2023,
while
A&O
Shearman
worked
on
$285
billion
worth
of
fossil-fuel-related
transactions
over
the
same
period.

In
a
statement,
LAR
referred
to
both
Biglaw
firms
as
“fossil
fuel
industry
enablers.”
The

American
Lawyer

has
additional
details
on
the
protest:

LAR
is
made
up
of
a
group
of
lawyers
campaigning
for
law
firms
to
cut
their
ties
to
the
fossil
fuel
industry,
while
Fossil
Free
London
describes
itself
as
a
group
that
uses
“direct
action,
creative
stunts,
disruption
and
protest
to
target
key
fossil
fuel
corporations
and
banks.”

Joanna
Warrington,
a
campaigner
at
Fossil
Free
London
said:
“Lawyers
here
are
raking
in
millions
by
defending
the
corporations
wrecking
our
planet.
They’re
not
just
complicit—they’re
profiting
from
climate
disaster
while
the
world’s
most
vulnerable
pay
the
price.”

Environmental
protests
like
these
aren’t
going
to
stop
anytime
soon.
Biglaw
needs
to
do
better,
to
make
the
future
better
for
all
of
us.


Climate
Groups
Demonstrate
Outside
A&O
Shearman
and
Akin
Offices

[American
Lawyer]



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