About Us: Sustainability

McGuireWoods LLP has an Environmental Sustainability Program in all of our offices, as well as the offices of McGuireWoods Consulting, our wholly owned subsidiary that offers government and public affairs services.

McGuireWoods and McGuireWoods Consulting have jointly established a Sustainable Operations Team to develop and direct this program. The Team is led by Daniel Slone, a partner in McGuireWoods’ Richmond office and Christine Eppstein, Vice President for Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility in McGuireWoods Consulting’s Washington office.

Slone speaks nationally on sustainability practices and is known for his legal services for developers of New Urban and sustainable projects. He represents the U.S. Green Building Council and the Congress for the New Urbanism as well as other national organizations focusing on sustainability. Eppstein advises clients on how to incorporate corporate social responsibility and sustainability practices, as integral components of business plans and operations.

Committed to Creating Effective Sustainability Processes and Procedures

McGuireWoods and McGuireWoods Consulting have worked with clients on sustainability issues for over 20 years to create sustainable processes and procedures and establish responsible social programs.

We are actively taking part in the American Bar Association and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s joint program, called the ABA-EPA Law Office Challenge – which is designed to encourage law offices to take meaningful and practical steps to become better environmental and energy stewards.

Our Sustainability Program is focused on expanding our environmental impact minimization programs across all of our U.S. offices through several steps, including:

• Creating a voluntary carbon offset program.
• Broadening electronic filing systems.
• Purchasing more energy efficient machinery and machinery to make two sided copying easy.
• Improving video-conferencing in order to cut down on travel.
• Adopting a firm-wide green purchasing program to significantly increase the use of recycled content in purchased products.

Additionally, we are committed to work towards utilizing green building standards in our future location and office refurbishment decisions. We are contacting our landlords around the country to express support for use of the LEED standards in the buildings where we have offices. It is our intent to use these standards in future space renovation. LEED is the voluntary green building program developed by the U.S. Green Building Council.

Our new Sustainability Policies build upon numerous practices undertaken by both McGuireWoods and McGuireWoods Consulting over the last decade. For many years, we have recycled paper, batteries, cardboard, aluminum cans, glass, machinery and furniture in our offices. We will build on this foundation to further reduce our consumption of energy and materials and our impact as a firm and individually in the coming years.