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Lawyers Charge Top Dollar For Climate Change Work ($700 per hour)
Evironmental Leader ^ | 1/23/08 | staff

Posted on 02/05/2008 2:33:33 PM PST by Kid Shelleen

Twenty of the top 100 highest-grossing U.S. law firms are billing as much as $700 dollars per hour for climate change work that ranges from lobbying Congress to helping clients finance clean-energy projects, according to Bloomberg. And the move into climate-change law is gaining traction as Congress considers mandatory GHG caps.Baker & McKenzie, a Chicago-based firm with over 3,300 lawyers, pioneered a climate-change group ten years ago. The team of 60 lawyers brought in an estimated revenue of $15 to $20 million in 2007, said Richard Saines, who heads the US part of the practice.

(Excerpt) Read more at environmentalleader.com ...


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KEYWORDS: climatechange; globalwarming; lawyers; scam
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*** this was reported by Bloomberg News but I can not post on freep *****
This was the only other source I found reporting this scam..
1 posted on 02/05/2008 2:33:36 PM PST by Kid Shelleen
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To: Kid Shelleen

“Money for nuthin”...


2 posted on 02/05/2008 2:34:39 PM PST by cinives (On some planets what I do is considered normal.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

This is merely a sign. The major projects have not yet begun. $20 trillion over a decade is the goal.


3 posted on 02/05/2008 2:35:47 PM PST by RightWhale (oil--the world currency)
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To: Kid Shelleen

$700 an hour experts on a mythical topic.

Regards


4 posted on 02/05/2008 2:37:32 PM PST by ARE SOLE (Agents Ramos and Campean are in prison at this very moment.. (A "Concerned Citizen".)
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To: Kid Shelleen

..I'll save em 50% for a 30 second consultation fee...then tell em to ignore globull warming jihadist..and we can walk away happy

5 posted on 02/05/2008 2:38:05 PM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Kid Shelleen
We can post the Bloomberg link, at least.

Lawyers Embrace U.S. Climate Practice at $700 an Hour

6 posted on 02/05/2008 2:39:40 PM PST by jdm (A Hunter Thompson ticket would be suicide.)
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To: ARE SOLE

Is it Junk Science, or is it Junk Lawyers perpetuating the AGW hoax? That is the question.


7 posted on 02/05/2008 2:40:42 PM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists...call 'em what you will...They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

it is hard work keeping all the lies straight..............


8 posted on 02/05/2008 2:42:05 PM PST by PeterPrinciple ( Seeking the truth here folks.)
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To: ARE SOLE

Damn! I need to think up a mythical topic. Oh yeah, and then I need to go to law school.

Nevermind.


9 posted on 02/05/2008 2:42:46 PM PST by austinaero
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To: Kid Shelleen

Lawyers always benefit.


10 posted on 02/05/2008 2:50:09 PM PST by polymuser (Just darn)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Carbon Credit trading schemes are potentially hundred of billion dollar business, which accomplishes nothing except to shift money from one person to another. Al Gore will be a very rich man once the Democrats or McCain implements this stupid system.


11 posted on 02/05/2008 2:50:46 PM PST by Always Right (Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?)
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To: austinaero

how to harness the power of leprachans and unicorns.

now go get that degree!


12 posted on 02/05/2008 2:53:24 PM PST by WOBBLY BOB (I will run through the gates of hell to not vote McCain/Pawlenty .)
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To: polymuser

>Lawyers always benefit.<

The lousy ones run for office.


13 posted on 02/05/2008 2:55:13 PM PST by B4Ranch (("Life is a food chain; if you're not at the top, you're on the menu." ))
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To: WOBBLY BOB

Oh, I am so inspired! Are they green by any chance? The unicorns I mean? Wouldn’t want to fall under the bad graces of ManBearPig!


14 posted on 02/05/2008 2:55:37 PM PST by austinaero
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To: Kid Shelleen

Lawyers own the Democrat party. It should be no surprise that Democrat policies bring them more work.


15 posted on 02/05/2008 2:57:53 PM PST by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Who wants to bet these lawyers aren’t driving Prius’s?


16 posted on 02/05/2008 3:01:20 PM PST by Proud_USA_Republican (We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
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To: austinaero

they are mutlti-color pastels. think ‘My Little Pony’ meets John Edwards.


17 posted on 02/05/2008 3:01:26 PM PST by WOBBLY BOB (I will run through the gates of hell to not vote McCain/Pawlenty .)
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To: Moonman62

IF there was ever a time to “FOLLOW THE MONEY’ it is now.


18 posted on 02/05/2008 3:06:11 PM PST by pacpam (action=consequence and applies in all cases - friend of victory)
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To: Kid Shelleen

There is big money to be made on ‘global warming’. All you have to do is find an angle and you’re in the $$$$


19 posted on 02/05/2008 3:15:26 PM PST by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

Can we tell the Democrats to stop spewing hot air, thus reducing their contribution to global warming?
Or that the rice and beans diet is unacceptable due to the resulting methane output?


20 posted on 02/05/2008 3:25:10 PM PST by tbw2 (Science fiction with real science - "Humanity's Edge" - on amazon.com)
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