Paul Weiss, Assailed by Trump, Quietly Scrubs ESG From Website
Web pages for the ESG advisory practice and institute at the elite law firm, which agreed to a deal with the president, are now dark.
The offices of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP in New York.
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Law firm Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison has long held itself up as a trailblazer on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. It launched one of the legal industry’s early standalone ESG advisory practices in 2020 to guide clients on things like climate disclosures and labor practices. A year later, it created the ESG and Law Institute, a “thought leadership forum” that partnered with universities and convened conferences to further the industry’s grasp of these topics.
All of this has recently vanished. Just weeks after the law firm’s deal to stave off an attack from the Trump administration, the ESG and Law Institute’s website is no longer functioning. Paul Weiss has also quietly removed its ESG advisory practice from its website, along with a slew of reports and webinars touching on this subject.