By Lena Babaeva Coradini

Great news: "Firms Grow Greener as Environmental Law Heats Up"!   This is especially positive:

Sustainability turned out to be a surprise boon in legal work. Fox said that while he understood the pressures to implement sustainability initiatives, two years ago he would have asked what the legal role was there.

He soon realized there is a large legal component to the initiatives and the firm created a practice group to service those needs. It helps clients create programs and understand public disclosure requirements associated with green building. They meet on a quarterly basis with clients from a cross-section of industries to discuss green issues and teamed up last year with Harvard Law School's Environmental Law and Public Policy Clinic to write a white paper on the legal risks associated with green building.

Fantastic.  I have recently been focusing on ways to create sustainability programs that work for companies, and this article is very encouraging!