We’ve come up with a list of five steps a law firm should take to address their carbon footprint. We’ve listed them below, along with hypothetical numbers for a law firm sitting in the middle of 2019’s Global 200 by revenue.

We are writing this article not just to provide a blueprint for law firms to reduce their carbon emissions, but also to show the low cost of carbon offsetting. The cost for our hypothetical law firm to purchase carbon offsets would be approximately 0.12% of annual revenue, which equals $814,800 for our hypothetical law firm. Given the multi-year timeline for steps like implementing a hub-and-spoke office model, the sensible strategy for law firms is to implement a carbon emissions reduction plan reviewed annually, and purchase carbon offsets for what you can’t offset. PartnerVine has done that with Climate Neutral, and it was much easier and less expensive than we expected. 

In this article, we describe each step, the estimated carbon emissions reduction for our hypothetical law firm and the methodology for calculating the numbers.

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