Sustainability Initiatives

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Our commitment to identifying and implementing sustainable practices is long-standing, but we also recognize that it’s an ongoing effort. Here’s how we are working to preserve this place we call home:

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Our commitment to identifying and implementing sustainable practices is long-standing, but we also recognize that it’s an ongoing effort. Here’s how we’re working to preserve this place we call home:

Internal Sustainability Committee

Formed in 1999, our Sustainability Committee continuously pushes the firm toward more sustainable business practices. Recent efforts include offering lawyers and staff incentives to use alternative transportation, adopting composting at the office, and going through a full-office remodel focused on using sustainable materials and green demolition and construction practices.

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Sustainability Policy

Our Sustainability Policy includes commitments to ongoing education, as well as guidance and requirements related to purchasing practices, energy use and carbon reduction, business travel and commuting, waste reduction, and the use of green building materials in office space improvements.

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Sustainability Policy

Our Sustainability Policy includes commitments to ongoing education, as well as guidance and requirements related to purchasing practices, energy use and carbon reduction, business travel and commuting, waste reduction, and the use of green building materials in office space improvements.

Oregon Lawyers for a Sustainable Future (OLSF)

In addition to volunteering with OLSF, we contributed to the development of a suite of sustainable practice tools for the organization’s use among the wider Oregon legal community.

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Volunteering

Our lawyers and staff contribute time and energy to organizations like the Recycling Advocates, SCRAP PDX, The Street Trust, the Center for Earth Leadership and the Portland/Multnomah County Sustainable Development Commission. Our attorneys have also served on the national editorial advisory board of Sustainability: The Journal of Record.

As a result of these practices, we’ve been recognized for our leadership by numerous organizations:

  • 2016 Oregon State Bar Sustainability Leadership Award
  • 2015-2021 Gold Certification from the City of Portland’s Sustainability at Work program
  • Oregon State Bar President’s Sustainability Award, bestowed in 2015 to Kimberlee Stafford, current chair of the firm’s internal Sustainability Committee
  • Oregon State Bar President’s Sustainability Award, bestowed in 2013 to Max Miller, Jr., founder of the firm’s Sustainability Committee
  • Oregon State Bar’s first Sustainable Leadership Award, bestowed in 2010 to Max Miller, Jr.
  • Oregon Business magazine’s “100 Best Green Companies to Work For” 2008
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Volunteering

Our lawyers and staff contribute time and energy to organizations like the Recycling Advocates, SCRAP PDX, The Street Trust, the Center for Earth Leadership and the Portland/Multnomah County Sustainable Development Commission. Our attorneys have also served on the national editorial advisory board of Sustainability: The Journal of Record.

As a result of these practices, we’ve been recognized for our leadership by numerous organizations:

  •  2016 Oregon State Bar Sustainability Leadership Award
  • 2015-2021 Gold Certification from the City of Portland’s Sustainability at Work program
  • Oregon State Bar President’s Sustainability Award, bestowed in 2015 to Kimberlee Stafford, current chair of the firm’s internal Sustainability Committee
  • Oregon State Bar President’s Sustainability Award, bestowed in 2013 to Max Miller, Jr., founder of the firm’s Sustainability Committee
  • Oregon State Bar’s first Sustainable Leadership Award, bestowed in 2010 to Max Miller, Jr.
  • Oregon Business magazine’s “100 Best Green Companies to Work For” 2008