Comments on: Students rate best (and worst) law firms for ‘climate accountability’ https://www.legalcheek.com/2024/06/students-rate-best-and-worst-law-firms-for-climate-accountability/ Legal news, insider insight and careers advice Mon, 01 Jul 2024 13:53:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: alan's mum https://www.legalcheek.com/2024/06/students-rate-best-and-worst-law-firms-for-climate-accountability/#comment-1194330 Mon, 01 Jul 2024 13:53:29 +0000 https://www.legalcheek.com/?p=206340#comment-1194330 In reply to Alan.

alaaaan!

]]> By: Data analysis https://www.legalcheek.com/2024/06/students-rate-best-and-worst-law-firms-for-climate-accountability/#comment-1193903 Thu, 27 Jun 2024 19:41:55 +0000 https://www.legalcheek.com/?p=206340#comment-1193903 So all the good firms scored D or F. This paper is authored by a few sanctimonious rich kids who can afford top law schools in the US (100k a year ballpark? Including living expenses?) without aiming to work at the top firms to pay off their debt (because they’re not incurring it). And before anyone womp womps about the over-referenced ad-hominem fallacy, my argument is that this paper advocates a sanctimonious moral standard that is unfeasible for most of their peer law students, and whose only useful function will be to prop up the holier-than-thou egos of these NYU Harvard and Columbia students. To all undergrad students: please go work for whatever firm you like, it doesn’t make you a bad person unless the bar for that is set by a champagne socialist with too much time on their hands.

]]> By: Democracy https://www.legalcheek.com/2024/06/students-rate-best-and-worst-law-firms-for-climate-accountability/#comment-1193901 Thu, 27 Jun 2024 19:31:30 +0000 https://www.legalcheek.com/?p=206340#comment-1193901 Every legal person is entitled to representation every legal person is entitled to representation every legal person is entitled to representation.

Both parties are represented. The judge’s decision is based on the law which may “mitigate or exacerbate” the climate crisis, not the lawyers who perform their constitutionally prescribed function. The lawyer is not the client, and assessing the lawyer based on the client’s actions is a very poor understanding of this profession.

]]> By: NQ https://www.legalcheek.com/2024/06/students-rate-best-and-worst-law-firms-for-climate-accountability/#comment-1193895 Thu, 27 Jun 2024 16:57:52 +0000 https://www.legalcheek.com/?p=206340#comment-1193895 Associates “having the option to reject work” is not a term I’ve heard before. Excellent way to ensure you have as short of a career as possible.

Also – we are a service industry. If law firm a cant do it, they will just go to law firm b. We dont decide that oil company a will buy oil company b.

]]> By: A normal human https://www.legalcheek.com/2024/06/students-rate-best-and-worst-law-firms-for-climate-accountability/#comment-1193884 Thu, 27 Jun 2024 16:16:57 +0000 https://www.legalcheek.com/?p=206340#comment-1193884 Unserious data from an unserious group of students, unsure why this gets oxygen

]]> By: Alan https://www.legalcheek.com/2024/06/students-rate-best-and-worst-law-firms-for-climate-accountability/#comment-1193847 Thu, 27 Jun 2024 12:55:49 +0000 https://www.legalcheek.com/?p=206340#comment-1193847 Trust a gang of students to come up with this woke nonsense. No doubt in a few years they’ll be desperate for a job at one of these firms, pushing aside whatever faux morals they pompously portray now.

]]> By: Cheers https://www.legalcheek.com/2024/06/students-rate-best-and-worst-law-firms-for-climate-accountability/#comment-1193832 Thu, 27 Jun 2024 11:36:10 +0000 https://www.legalcheek.com/?p=206340#comment-1193832 A fantastic resource, albeit an indictment of our industry as a whole.

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