A new code of practice has been designed by the "Legal Sector Alliance" which is specifically tailored for the legal profession to provide a practical guide to adopting environmentally sustainable practices.

The Legal Sector Alliance is a movement of law firms and organisations committed to working collaboratively against the climate threat. In the The Lawyer , Legal Sector Alliance project manager Debbi Christophers said:

"The new protocol was mainly a collaboration between representatives of four firms – Burges Salmon, SJ Berwin, Freshfields and DLA Piper – who came up with the final protocol after a common message was coming through that everyone wanted to measure their carbon footprint but had no clue how to go about it.

"The tool and guide is tailored to law firms specifically, looking as issues such as business travel and energy efficiency opposed to other tools out there which are for manufacturers and so not really applicable to a law firm environment."

Firms that decide to use the new tool are not required to publicly disclose their results, but 18 law firms have committed to doing just that in December, including:

Allen & Overy
Bond Pearce
Burges Salmon
Cobbetts
Dickinson Dees
DLA Piper
Eversheds
Freshfield Bruckhaus Deringer
Herbert Smith
Irwin Mitchell
Linklaters
Lovells
Martineau
Morgan Solicitors
Nicholas Moore
Slaughter and May
SJ Berwin
Taylor Wessing
Herbert Smith chief operating officer Norman Green (ho ho) said: “Now, with climate change firmly on the business agenda, this kind of data is being demanded by an increasing number of graduates, employees and clients as evidence that we are taking this issue seriously.

“People want to know what their business partners and their employers are doing in this area, and this sends a powerful signal that we need to do more and we need to do better.”

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