Practice Areas

Business & Human Rights

Paul Hastings is a global leader in addressing business and human rights issues, leveraging our unparalleled talent and knowledge to help companies navigate their most complex business and human rights challenges. We work closely with clients to understand and advise on their business and legal objectives, delivering tailored solutions, innovative strategies and value-add offerings through seamless service across practices and regions.

Shaping the Business and Human Rights Landscape

Our partners have significant experience in the areas of business and human rights, international humanitarian law, responsible business conduct and government investigations and have assisted in the development of some of the leading international business and human rights standards across a range of industries. Our lawyers:

Assist the world’s largest companies and organizations in addressing their most difficult human rights and international humanitarian law problems.
We are members of professional associations, actively contributing to working groups on business and human rights and the intersection of business and international humanitarian law.
Provide regular briefings and host conferences on legal business and human rights developments for leading business and human rights organizations.

Leading Legal and Compliance Practitioners

We are highly experienced lawyers who apply traditional legal and compliance skillsets to business and human rights. This enables us to provide innovative and practical solutions specific to human rights, integrate human rights into existing compliance and program structures and legal activities, and devise holistic approaches to business and human rights dilemmas. We have:

Developed, implemented, overseen and monitored global standalone human rights programs and assisted in integrating human rights into existing anticorruption and international regulatory compliance programs.
Conducted investigations related to human rights and international humanitarian law, and investigations involving human rights as one of several subject areas.
Represented companies in government enforcement matters specific to human rights, as well as cases involving human rights and other regulatory areas.

Litigation Expertise

Our team brings deep experience in addressing complex disputes and enforcement matters related to business and human rights. We represent multinational clients in domestic and cross-border litigation, internal investigations and enforcement proceedings where human rights issues intersect with commercial, regulatory and compliance obligations. Our lawyers are skilled at developing litigation strategies that minimize risk, protect corporate reputation and ensure adherence to evolving international human rights standards.