Law Students Protest Outside Paul Weiss's New York Office Over Firm's Exxon Representation
The group delivered more than 600 signatures of law students demanding the firm stop representing fossil fuel clients or they won't work there.
October 09, 2020 at 05:48 PM
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A group called the Law Students for Climate Accountability hand-delivered a list of over 600 signatures from law students from schools such as New York University, Harvard, Yale, Stanford and the University of Michigan, among others, to the Manhattan office of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison Friday, demanding the firm stop representing fossil fuel clients such as ExxonMobil or those students won't consider the firm an option for future employment.
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