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Harvard Law School: In — “Going after climate denialism with a bunch of prosecutors”; Out — Ethical Principle of zealous defense

Harvard Law School students can’t tolerate the idea of allowing a firm to recruit on campus, for the sin of having just crushed an out of control prosecutor in what is — when considering the larger enterprise of which it was a part (chronicled tirelessly here at CLW) — one of the more egregious abuses […]

RELEASE: Citing Longstanding Precedent, New Emails, GAO Files Motion Asking NY Court to Unseal “#ExxonKnew” Documents Sent from Tort Lawyer to NY Attorney General

New Emails obtained in AG open records litigation affirm: plaintiff’s lawyer who recruited NY OAG to investigate his litigation target was not “whistleblower”, docs aren’t privileged NEW YORK, NY – On Friday, an attorney for the public interest law firm Government Accountability & Oversight, P.C. (GAO) filed a motion to intervene in the New York Attorney […]

Did Massachusetts AG Just File a Tort Lawyer’s Slide Show as a Lawsuit?

These past two weeks CLW has documented how, just weeks her office took in a slide show presentation titled “What Exxon Knew” from a plaintiffs’ attorney touring OAGs looking for “a single sympathetic attorney general” to help out his flagging litigation campaign against the energy industry, Massachusetts’ AG Maura Healey announced an investigation into — […]

The Climate Change Litigation Campaign Next Stop? The U.S. House of Representatives.

From the Manufacturers Accountability Project The House Oversight and Reform Committee’s Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties held a hearing Wednesday Oct 23rd titled “Examining the Oil Industry’s Efforts to Suppress the Truth about Climate Change.” Among the hearing’s witnesses are Harvard University professor Dr. Naomi Oreskes and Sharon Eubanks, former chief counsel for […]

Mementos of House Hearing Witness, #ExxonKnew Author’s Role in Climate Litigation Industry

Naomi Oreskes is the Zelig of the climate litigation industry, appearing in every agenda or list of attendees at landmark “secret”, “delegitimize” and other infamous gatherings: As CLW wrote earlier: Trotting out activists Naomi Oreskes and Sharon Bordas is something of an effort to get the band back together from the “secret meeting at Harvard”, […]