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Offline jtyangel

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Lawyers embrace US climate practice at $700 an hour
« on: January 25, 2008, 08:29:19 AM »
This is offsetting to me since I believe very much in following the money to get behind the push behind a lot of 'socially conscious' ideas.  :devious:


http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=ajXR7rBGO0pU&refer=exclusive

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n. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Lawyers are becoming some of the best-paid environmentalists.

Twenty of the 100 highest-grossing U.S. law firms have started practices advising companies on climate change, according to a Bloomberg survey of the firms' Web sites. The attorneys help clients finance clean-energy projects and lobby Congress, typically billing $500 to $700 an hour.

Firms including Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, Heller Ehrman and Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton joined the global warming cause as real-estate and structured-finance attorneys lost jobs to the worst U.S. housing slump in 27 years. The move into climate-change law is gaining traction as Congress considers a mandatory carbon market to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

``Since the elections last November, climate change has had a higher profile as a political issue,'' said Paul Gutermann, co- leader of Washington-based Akin Gump's group, which comprises 50 of the firm's 1,023 attorneys.

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Re: Lawyers embrace US climate practice at $700 an hour
« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2008, 04:25:13 PM »
ahhhhh.......so it's a profit thing[/the jerk]
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Re: Lawyers embrace US climate practice at $700 an hour
« Reply #2 on: January 26, 2008, 04:52:23 PM »
Yeah, there is no hidden agenda in the Global Warming scare.
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Re: Lawyers embrace US climate practice at $700 an hour
« Reply #3 on: January 27, 2008, 07:52:50 AM »
As I've stated to the global warming KoolAid drinkers all along--follow the money.
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