
‘All lawyers need to be ESG lawyers in one form or another’, says Gilly Hutchinson, head of ESG regional development in Asia at Linklaters in Hong Kong. In contrast, others argue that there is no such thing as an ESG lawyer.
In practice, these conflicting views are really two sides of the same coin as both acknowledge that ESG has permeated such a vast range of practice areas that no practitioner remains unexposed. All lawyers are ESG lawyers, and therefore no lawyers are ESG lawyers.