In 2020, consumers and institutional investors began demanding corporations pay greater attention to environmental, social and corporate governance issues—ESG for short. With a global pandemic impacting all businesses, and conversation around racial justice increasing, it is very likely that the general counsel will play a greater role in their company’s ESG efforts in 2021.

Even before the pandemic, 52% of general counsel expected that they would need to ramp up their ESG efforts in 2020, according to the 2020 Chief Legal Officer’s Survey published by the Association of Corporate Counsel. This is largely because investors have been looking at corporate ESG efforts for the past two years. Experts say they expect more general counsel to become actively involved in ESG work through 2021 as issues of social justice move and how to report on those metrics move to the forefront.

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