Comments on: Students rate best (and worst) law firms for ‘climate accountability’

By: alan's mum

Mon, 01 Jul 2024 13:53:29 +0000

By: Data analysis

Thu, 27 Jun 2024 19:41:55 +0000

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.

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By: Democracy

Thu, 27 Jun 2024 19:31:30 +0000

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.

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By: NQ

Thu, 27 Jun 2024 16:57:52 +0000

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.

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By: A normal human

Thu, 27 Jun 2024 16:16:57 +0000

Unserious data from an unserious group of students, unsure why this gets oxygen

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By: Alan

Thu, 27 Jun 2024 12:55:49 +0000

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.

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By: Cheers

Thu, 27 Jun 2024 11:36:10 +0000

A fantastic resource, albeit an indictment of our industry as a whole.

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