Legal Marketing & PR

Sexy Law - Let?s Go Dating Miss Climate Change

By lawjobspipeline

Want to step into a law job that places you in the very epicenter of ‘cool’?  I wrote in ‘Briefcase’, the NZ Law blog about the fact that different areas of law have different levels of ‘coolness’ to them, undoubtedly now lead by Climate Change, as the hot area, pun excused.  We’ve had many other ‘hot’ areas of course, like M&A, private equity big money deals (big money deals are always cool for lawyers), sports law and others.  But climate change, with all its threat to our existence may be the coolest of them all.  We’ve got this right, right? 

We know that executives and consumers are displaying equal concern about climate change issue with 80% of global executives evidently considering regulation a distinct possibility within five years, according to a McKensey report.  Lawyers are moving into the field rapidly, occupying the higher ground of laws surrounding climate change like carbon trading along with various environmental, regulatory, administrative, corporate and securities law issues.

My ‘Briefcase’ not related to kiwi firm Bell Gully whose Simon Watt is a world-recognized climate change lawyer. Internationally firms all over are stepping up their climate change work.  It’s an area for the young lawyer to look at closely, perhaps marrying different discplines to bring to the table when they’re job-seeking.

Full post as published by Lawyer Marketing Blog on April 09, 2008 (boomark / email).