Sustainability
Sidley Austin launches sustainability apprenticeship
The new scheme could attract those looking for a pathway into the emergent ESG sector
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My life as a green finance lawyer
Hogan Lovells’ Andrew Carey maps out his career, ahead of tomorrow’s virtual student event
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Meet the sustainability manager helping one global law firm go green
Bird & Bird’s Lauren Nethercleft on her newly created role of sustainability manager and the firm’s drive to meet their net zero ambitions
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The business of sustainability
Brunel University LLM student Ece Gorgun Balci discusses some of the regulations related to business sustainability, including mandatory reporting, directors’ duties and efforts to curb greenwashing
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Lawyers’ role in the race to net zero
Burges Salmon Director Ellen Williams on helping clients become greener and the satisfaction of seeing construction plans become reality
TLT sets science-based 2040 net-zero target
New green goals ‘in recognition of the urgency of the global climate crisis’
Burges Salmon targets 50% emissions cut by 2030
Latest firm to set green goals 🌳
Travers tackles food waste with its free canteen
Office café to provide three meals a day from September
Irwin Mitchell looks to power all offices using renewable energy within three years
National outfit latest to set green goals
Pinsent Masons and Osborne Clarke up eco efforts with net-zero emissions targets
More firms look to cut carbon
Reed Smith counts ‘sustainability hours’ towards billing targets
New 25-hour policy considered to be ‘industry-first’
Slaughters targets 90% emissions reduction by 2040
Joins growing number of City firms implementing green goals 🌍
Is it all over for law firm freebies?
17 law firms pledge greener trainee recruitment practices, possibly spelling end for law student-coveted merch
Eversheds becomes latest City firm to target net zero emissions
By 2050 or sooner
Global law firms unite to support net zero transition
Net Zero Lawyers Alliance’s 22 founding members include Clifford Chance, Slaughters and HSF
Linklaters looks to slash emissions by up to 70%
Magic circle player latest to up its green efforts 🍃
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Sustainability or spin? Greenwashing and the law
LSE law graduate and future trainee Matthew Unsworth takes a look at how competition authorities are responding to misleading eco claims
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What ‘build back better’ means for law firms
A panel of Womble Bond Dickinson lawyers discuss their role in boosting sustainable business
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The role of lawyers in the post-COVID recovery
Womble Bond Dickinson’s Jonathan Bower explains how the rebuild after the pandemic involves businesses giving back to their communities
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Watch now: Travers Smith lawyers on the shift to sustainable capitalism
Full footage from Legal Cheek and Travers Smith’s latest student careers event now live
Nottingham Uni Law Society targets carbon negative first
Green goal follows City firms’ pledge to ditch law fair merch