Exxon Firm Paul Weiss Target of Protest at Yale Law (Corrected)

Harvard and Yale Law students are calling for fellow students across the country to pledge to boycott Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison until the firm drops ExxonMobil as its legal client.

Students launched their boycott outside the firm’s first-year recruitment reception at a restaurant in New Haven, Conn. on Thursday, ratcheting up the protests that took place last month at a similar event at Harvard Law School. The students are objecting to what they say is Paul Weiss’s legal assistance aiding “decades of disinformation to obstruct climate action.”

Several dozen students waved placards and chanted “Drop Exxon,” and “Paul ...