The LAW FIRM CLIMATE CHANGE SCORECARD

We created the LSCA Law Firm Climate Change Scorecard in order to understand the role the legal industry plays in the climate crisis more broadly.

The Scorecard ranks the "Vault 100" law firms according to how much fossil fuels work they have engaged in over a five-year period. It was designed to draw awareness to the indispensable role law firms play in creating, implementing, and safeguarding fossil fuel projects, as well as protecting the people who profit off of them.

The Scorecard is produced annually by LSCA student leaders. We aim to inform our peers, including students and young associates, so that they can make career decisions that are in line with their personal stake in the habitability of our one and only Earth. We also hope that firms' clients will use the information in the Scorecard to guide their hiring decisions.

In the long-term, we hope the Scorecard will push firms to move away from the fossil fuel industry and toward a livable future.

THE 2025 SCORECARD

Law Students for Climate Accountability (LSCA) is publishing the 2025 Law Firm Climate Change Scorecard, its sixth annual report on the state of the Vault 100’s ties to fossil fuels. For the first time, LSCA’s report includes additional firms in major markets in Africa, Australia, Europe, and North America. It shows that after years of mounting pressure, firms have begun to make marginal progress, finding a decrease in Vault 100 firms’ lobbying on behalf of fossil fuel companies. A new high of fourteen firms received an A ranking for 2025.