Law Students Group Wants Gibson Dunn Boycott Over Energy Work

A group of law students is pushing a boycott of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher over the firm’s “work shielding corporate polluters from climate accountability.”

Law Students for Climate Accountability recently launched a public sign-on letter and a video announcement calling for the boycott. The group said Gibson Dunn’s legal tactics had caused “immense harm to the climate and frontline communities, particularly Indigenous communities.”

The group cited the firm’s “scorched earth” tactics on behalf of clients, like the Dakota Access pipeline and oil behemoth Chevron Corp. The law students said the firm’s actions resulted in “persecuting human rights lawyer Steven Donziger, ...