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Category: Article
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Check Your Integrity: to act or not to act, and the Solicitors’ Principles
This article explores whether solicitors are professionally obligated to work for clients even if they believe their advice will contribute to significant harm, such as environmental damage.
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Shifting Power Dynamics in Investing
Legal tools and innovations By: Karyn Polak – Impact Entrepreneur correspondent and GAIL North America Regional Member August 27, 2024 This article by the Impact Entrepreneur reviews the Annual Grunin…
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Selling with Purpose — How We Exited Our Impact Company
In this article from ImpactPHL, Amanda Levinson and Natasha Freidus, co-founders of NeedsList, share their journey of exiting their impact-driven company to a values-aligned buyer. They offer insights into their process, challenges, and key strategies, aiming to guide other impact entrepreneurs considering similar paths.
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Assessing the influence of ESG washing on bank reputational exposure: A cross-country analysis
This article investigates the critical impact of ESG washing on banks’ reputations in this insightful study. Exploring data from 120 banks across 35 countries between 2014 and 2020, the research reveals how discrepancies between environmental and social disclosures and their actual implementation can either heighten or reduce reputational risks.
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GAIL Latin America: Regional Challenges and Opportunities in Impact Law
GAIL Latin America provides this overview of key developments and opportunities across the region.
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Beyond Supply Chains: new EU rules increase pressure on companies to adopt responsible business practices
This article explores whether solicitors are professionally obligated to work for clients even if they believe their advice will contribute to significant harm, such as environmental damage.
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The $20 million lawyer: signifier of system failure (and potential superhero saviour?)
This article by The Uncertain Solicitor examines the phenomenon of $20 million salaries for top lawyers, critiquing it as a symbol of systemic economic and environmental imbalance. It argues that such high earnings reflect and exacerbate unsustainable practices contributing to climate change and societal inequality.
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Two-Pocket Thinking Is Dead (or It Should Be)
This article by Impact Entrepreneur discusses the limitations of “two-pocket thinking,” in business and the importance of ethical leadership and advocates for a holistic perspective that prioritises integrity and accountability.
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Lawyers can use their privileged position to combat climate change
Law’s vital role in combating climate change is hindered by practices fuelling self-termination. Bates Wells’ David Hunter explores how lawyers can use their imagination and agency to reshape legal frameworks for a sustainable future.
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Profile of a Benefit Biotech: United Therapeutics’ Journey of Becoming and Existing as a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC)
This profile describes the legal benefit corporation framework, distinguishes it from the B Corp business certification, and summarizes the journey of United Therapeutics towards and beyond corporate conversion in order to further its sustainability goals.