Energy Law
A Time to Plant
Posted Oct 1, 2009, 06:40 pm CST
By Kristin Choo
Depending on his or her practice setting, a lawyer uses anywhere from 20,000 to 100,000 sheets of paper a year, according to an informal sampling of law firms conducted in 2006 by Arnold & Porter. It takes a dozen trees to feed the paper needs of a lawyer at the upper end of that scale.
But now it’s payback time.
In 2007, the ABA—working primarily through its Section of Environment, Energy and Resources—teamed with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to launch the Law Office Climate Challenge. One of the program’s goals is to encourage law firms to use less paper. More than 200 law firms and other organizations are now participating. (See “Ending the Paper… Continue reading...
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