Students from Harvard Law School on Jan. 15 disrupted a recruiting reception in Cambridge, Massachusetts, hosted by Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and demanded the firm stop representing Exxon in climate change litigation. (Courtesy photo)
Harvard Law students are taking Big Law to task yet again—this time over representing Exxon Mobil in climate change litigation.
A group of 30 first-year law students on Wednesday disrupted a recruiting reception hosted by Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, which has been representing the oil giant in a series of lawsuits tied to climate change. After unfurling a banner that read #DropExxon, the students spent 15 minutes chanting and singing before leaving the reception—held at a restaurant near the school’s Cambridge, Massachusetts, campus—and joining other climate change protesters outside.
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