{"id":1439,"date":"2024-06-20T22:39:54","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T22:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/these-law-firms-were-named-worst-offenders-for-their-fossil-fuel-client-work\/"},"modified":"2024-06-20T22:39:54","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T22:39:54","slug":"these-law-firms-were-named-worst-offenders-for-their-fossil-fuel-client-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/these-law-firms-were-named-worst-offenders-for-their-fossil-fuel-client-work\/","title":{"rendered":"These Law Firms Were Named &#8216;Worst Offenders&#8217; For Their Fossil Fuel Client Work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>Law firms including Clifford Chance, Linklaters, A&amp;O Shearman, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Kirkland &amp; Ellis, Latham &amp; Watkins and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton &amp; Garrison have been named in research as being among the worst offenders for doing fossil fuel related work.<\/p>\n<p>A report compiled by activist group Law Students for Climate Accountability listed the law firms that benefit the most from giving advice in this area. It found that between 2019-2023 the top 100 firms in the world facilitated $2.89 trillion in fossil fuel transactions, engaged in 518 instances of climate-exacerbating representation, and received $32.97 million in compensation for lobbying on behalf of fossil fuel interest.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Law firms including Clifford Chance, Linklaters, A&amp;O Shearman, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Kirkland &amp; Ellis, Latham &amp; Watkins and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton &amp; Garrison have been named in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[336,191,2063,2064,153,2060,2062,189,2061],"class_list":["post-1439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-client","tag-firms","tag-fossil","tag-fuel","tag-law","tag-named","tag-offenders","tag-work","tag-worst"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}