ClientEarth
James Thornton, the President and Founder of ClientEarth, is a highly accomplished individual in the field of environmental law. James previously served as the Executive Director at Heffter Research Institute and as a senior lawyer and founder of the Los Angeles Office at NRDC. James's educational background includes a JD from New York University School of Law and a BA in Philosophy and Biology from Notre Dame and Yale University.
ClientEarth
We are a non-profit using the power of the law to bring about end-to-end systemic change: informing, implementing and enforcing the law, drafting and advising decision-makers on policy, building legal expertise, and ensuring citizens’ access to the laws that defend them. We take governments to court – and win. We force polluting industries to shut down. We protect irreplaceable forests and vulnerable species. We empower people and NGOs with the legal rights to bring forward environmental battles of their own. Using the law means that we create real, long-lasting and embedded change. We’re working to secure a lasting civilisation in which people and nature thrive together. We work in partnership across borders, systems and sectors, ingeniously using the law to protect life on Earth.