In this episode, Patrick Miller speaks with speaks with Shannon Morrissey about her career trajectory as an environmental lawyer and her increasingly diverse work in the ESG space, with an emphasis on the recent California climate disclosure laws (SB 253 and SB 261) and the SEC’s recently published climate disclosure rules, as well as a discussion of legal challenges being brought against these recent advancements and what the future likely holds for corporate climate risk analysis, emissions accounting and reduction.

GUEST: Shannon Morissey is Of Counsel at WilmerHale’s San Francisco office. She focuses her practice on environmental, natural resources and ESG matters, including environmental justice and related emerging policy issues. She has assisted clients in technology, real estate, mining, airline and other industries—including multi-national industrial corporations, manufacturers, and oil and gas companies, as well as major residential and commercial developers—on a wide variety of permitting, compliance, enforcement and litigation matters.

HOST: Patrick Miller is the Founding Attorney at Impact Advocates APC, a law firm based in Los Angeles which focuses on commercial litigation & international arbitration, as well as ESG advisory services such as implementing responsible supply chain frameworks.

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