What is a sustainable business model? Can a law firm leave a smaller carbon foot print? How in the jiminy would a green law firm operate if it could leave a smaller eco echo? Apparently, according to ereleases.com, there is a tool now available to assist businesses in assessing the size of their carbon boots, ecoAnalyze.

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Can Law Firms Go Green?
By Eric Rondeau
What is a sustainable business model? Can a law firm leave a smaller carbon foot print? How in the jiminy would a green law firm
operate if it could leave a smaller eco echo? Apparently, according to ereleases.com, there is a tool now available to assist businesses in
assessing the size of their carbon boots, ecoAnalyze.
More on that in a moment. My point is that even today there is still comfort in having
something tangible to read and scar.
If anyone has worked in a law firm, they know immediately that
when pushing a deadline, everything goes out the window. That The firm environment is similar. There is an interesting
most definitely includes the environment. Paper is a major part hodgepodge of tech uses in a typical law firm. Everyone has
of any law practice of significant volume and is a significant their own way of working. It’s hard to make anyone commit to
part of wreaking havoc on our planet. Stop one moment and one way or another. Most, in my experience, work in a hybrid
think of the amount of paper that is thrown out due to printer environment. The spectrum is broad.
and copier jams alone. How many times have you printed
something and forgotten it on the printer only to print it again. I recall one particularly extreme example. During one of my
first jobs as a paralegal, a partner that I working for had his
I’m not pointing fingers. I am as guilty as the next person computer removed from his office after one day because he
and am unrepentantly addicted to paper. I am 35 and have couldn’t warm up to it.
attended college and two graduate programs. I claim to be
moderately sophisticated when it comes to using and talking It’s hard to ‘’warm’’ up to a computer screen and, logistically,
about technology applications. hard to simultaneously research, organize your thoughts and
write on a computer (unless, for example, you have multiple
Many moons ago, when I was an undergrad, everything was screens). Paperless, to my mind, is a lovely dream; but like
photocopies and books and paper, paper, paper. As a grad most dreams not always practical or practicable.
student, although I did plenty of research online and via online
databases, I always printed out my sources so I could read This takes us back to our original thought. Can there be a
and mark them up. Today, I still read books (I collect them) realistic measure of a firm’s carbon footprint? Can there be
and prefer having documents related to cases I am working on metrics that suggest where a law office should make changes?
in hand despite my using many legal tech tools to get those Sure. On paper, it sounds great. What about in practice?
documents.
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