Law Practice,
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Apr. 13, 2021
Efforts to make firms drop clients meet resistance
In 2018, students from elite law schools persuaded several of the nation’s largest law firms to alter or drop entirely employee arbitration agreements that they said were used to cover up harassment.
Law students from elite schools are using a Twitter pressure campaign to try to force Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP to implement what the group calls “ethical standards” for the oil and gas industry matters the firm does take on.
“If you look at Gibson Dunn right now, you can’t find any standard, any ethical standard guiding their fossil fuel work. Really the only standard you can find is profit,” said Tim Hirschel-Burns, a second-...
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