Nearly one-quarter of in-house attorneys surveyed by Norton Rose Fulbright say their companies’ ESG-related risk exposure increased in 2023, and 27% expect it to get worse in 2024.

The firm’s recently released “2024 Litigation Trends Survey,” based on interviews with 400 in-house attorneys late last year, found that 1 in 10 respondents worked for legal departments that faced ESG-related litigation last year. That compared with 2 of every 100 legal departments a year earlier.