Wake Up Call: No Remote Legal Work for Russians, Scholars Urge

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March 18, 2022
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Leading off, a team of faculty and research staff from law schools at Harvard, Stanford and Yale said recent Big Law firm exits from Russia are a good first step but possibly misleading. “Law firms can and do serve Russian interests from afar; if nothing else, Covid has taught us the possibilities of remote work,” the project said in a statement. The team said it is tracking AmLaw 100 firms and UK100 firms to see which have publicly committed not to profit from work that helps Russia’s war on Ukraine. So far, only four have done that, it said. (Law.Stanford.edu) Another monitoring project, at Yale Law, says over 400 companies have withdrawn from Russia, but others remain. (Yale.edu)

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