Neal Gerber Eisenberg Achieves Gold Rating for the American Legal Industry Sustainability Standard (ALISS) Assessment

CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Neal Gerber Eisenberg (NGE) is proud to announce that it has achieved a Gold ranking for the American Authorized Trade Sustainability Normal (ALISS) evaluation. ALISS was created by the Legislation Agency Sustainability Community (LFSN), the main U.S.-based group devoted to selling environmental sustainability amongst regulation corporations.

“Sustainability is a key part in our company social duty initiatives, with a concentrate on creating bold and quantifiable environmental, social and governance requirements,” stated Sonia Menon, Chief Working Officer for NGE and chair of the agency’s Sustainability Committee. “The ALISS evaluation has allowed us to measure the success of our environmental sustainability applications whereas realizing alternatives to enhance our efforts.”

“We’re a values-driven enterprise, and making the world a greater place is a precedence,” stated Managing Accomplice Scott Fisher. “The Gold ranking is a welcome affirmation of our efforts and for our imaginative and prescient to be an lively company citizen.”

The ALISS evaluation awards factors for actions throughout 5 broad classes: Inside Sustainability, Exterior Sustainability, Stakeholder Engagement, Measuring & Reporting, and Innovation, and goals to encourage corporations to take motion to additional cut back their impression on the surroundings.

Among the many unique 15 regulation corporations to take part within the ALISS evaluation at its launch in 2015, NGE’s main objective is to make sure that sustainable finest practices are embedded into all areas of the agency’s operations, to repeatedly cut back consumption and waste, to advertise recycling and to realize power efficiency enchancment to cut back the agency’s footprint on the surroundings. Amongst many applied steps, the agency:

• Considerably decreased power consumption by shifting to a extra virtualized server infrastructure.
• Invested in power environment friendly home equipment and computer systems to cut back power use.
• Moved to a safe digital submitting system, lowering paper consumption and saving 10.5 tons of paper annually.
• Changed single-use espresso pods with bean-to-cup espresso machines, lowering 2,000 kilos of waste from ending up in landfills.

Click here to study extra in regards to the full scope of NGE’s sustainability initiatives.

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