LATTE (Lawyers Accountable To The Earth)

The Lawyer Challenge

We, the lawyers in the United States, are going through 24 million trees per year.

Here is the math:

  1. The average Lawyer uses a ton of paper each year.1

  2. That calculates to 24 trees destroyed each year per lawyer.2

  3. There are currently over one million lawyers in the US.3 That calculates to over 24 million trees destroyed each year.


The Solution: Replant The Trees You Use!

Lawyers certainly need paper to perform their job effectively. But that demand for paper, unfortunately is stripping the Earth of its trees. There is a very easy solution. Replant the trees you use each year. It is very inexpensive to make this commitment and you would be making a huge contribution to the Earth. Leave this Earth better than you found it!

LET'S GIVE LAWYERS A GOOD NAME!

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5 Easy Tips for Lawyers:

THINK TREES

  • Turn lights off
  • Recycle, recycle, recycle
  • Email instead of using paper
  • Educate yourself on conservation and green initiatives
  • Spring for 100% recycled paper

For more Green Guidelines for Law Offices, click here

  1. Jennifer A. Thelen, a lawyer on the Committee on Environmental Law of the New York bar association.
  2. 24 trees per ton of virgin uncoated freesheet paper, based on a mix of hardwoods and softwoods 6-8" in diameter and 40' tall. (Source: Tom Soder, Pulp & Paper Technology Program, University of Maine, September 1991, as reported in Recycled Papers: The Essential Guide, by Claudia G. Thompson, 1992)
  3. American Bar Association

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