More than 65 lawyers, law firms and organizations from across the state have signed the MBA Lawyers Environmental Pledge to make their offices more Earth friendly.
"I look forward to supporting the Eco-Challenge in its second year as it continues encouraging lawyers to cut back on their energy and resource consumption," said McIntyre, a solo practitioner in Clinton who joined the Eco-Challenge as soon as it was unveiled.
Launched in September 2007 under immediate Past President David W. White Jr, the Eco-Challenge is a joint project with the Conservation Law Foundation in Boston. CLF is New England’s leading legal advocacy organization working to protect the region’s environment.
The Eco-Challenge Energy and Environmental Task Force aims to spend its second year increasing participation among the state’s lawyers and working on new projects, including issuing Green Guidelines for the home.
Last year, the task force issued a pledge and published Green Guidelines for the office as well as honored four firms for taking extraordinary steps to implement those guidelines. Those firms were: Borchers, Ware & Guglielmo in Medway; Milton, Laurence & Dixon in Worcester; McRoberts, Roberts & Rainer LLP in Boston; and Modern Times Legal in Cambridge.
"The task force is excited about continuing its important work and hopes to provide even more guidance to practitioners throughout the state on ways they can become more green, both at work and home," White said.
White formed the task force and appointed its co-chairs — Susan M. Reid and Nancy B. Reiner — who will continue to lead the group of more than one dozen attorneys. Reid is a staff attorney and director of the Massachusetts Clean Energy and Climate Change Initiative for CLF, and Reiner is the executive director of Counsel On Call’s new Boston office.
These are the firms that have signed onto the Eco-Challenge since the program began in January 2008:
Signature Signers
Conservation Law Foundation, Boston
Breakstone, White & Gluck PC, Boston
Brody, Hardoon, Perkins & Kesten LLP, Boston
Brown, Rudnick, Berlack, Israels LLP, Boston
Burns & Levinson LLP, Boston
Debra L. Smith, Attorney at Law, Watertown
Foley Hoag LLP, Boston
Greenberg Traurig LLP, Boston
Holland & Knight LLP, Boston
Law Office of David J. Dennis and Associates LLC, Fall River
Law Office of Susan J. Crane, Sudbury
Law Offices of Jeffrey S. Glassman LLC, Boston
MCLE Inc., Boston
Rich May, Boston
Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Boston
Shalhoub & Orlacchio PC, Boston
Todd & Weld LLP, Boston
WilmerHale, Boston
Pledge Partners
Banner & Witcoff Ltd., Boston
Bay State Legal Services LLC, Boston
Michelle Bennett, Attorney at Law, Palmer
Borchers Ware & Guglielmo PC, Medway
Bowditch & Dewey LLP, Worcester
Bromberg & Sunstein, Boston
Dorothy Carlo, Attorney at Law, Holyoke
Cetrulo & Capone, Boston
Cohen & Sales, Cambridge
Concannon Law Offices, Marshfield
Curley Law Firm LLP, Wakefield
Davids and Wollman, Swampscott
Deily, Mooney & Glastetter LLP, Brookline
Susan DeMaria, Esq., Florence
Denner Pellegrino LLP, Boston
Empire Settlement Funding, Quincy
Robert A. Feuer, Attorney at Law, Stockbridge
Gallagher & Cavanaugh LLP, Lowell
Gesmer Updegrove LLP, Boston
Anna T. Green, Attorney at Law, Beverly
Klevan & Klevan LLP, Wellesley
Lahive & Cockfield LLP, Boston
Law Offices of Jagruti Acharya, Marlborough
The Law Office of Holly D. Battige, Monson
Law Offices of Joshua Blumen PC, Stoughton
Law Offices of Rachelle L. Boucher, Sagamore Beach
The Law Offices of Sean J. Cleary, Amherst
Law Office of Elizabeth Clarke, South Deerfield
Law Offices of Sherrill P. Cline PC, Marlborough
Law Office of Susan B. Frankfort, Danvers
Law Office of Dawn Harkness Esq., Framingham
Law Office of Helen G. Litsas,
Saugus
Law Office of Erin McBee,
North Andover
Law Office of Glenn J. Murphy,
Medway
Law Offices of Leonard Y. Nason PC, Bedford
Law Office of Alice Olsen Mann PC, Lexington
Law Office of Kristin Palace, Topsfield
Law Office of Craig Yankes, Burlington
Stephen M. Linsky, Esq., Newton
Mackie Shea O’Brien PC, Boston
Allen J. Margulis PC, Needham
Martinelli Caputi & Associates Ltd.,
Warwick, RI
McIntyre Law Offices, Clinton
McRoberts, Roberts and Rainer, LLP, Boston
Milton, Laurence & Dixon, Worcester
Modern Times Legal, Cambridge
Office of Roberta F. Sawyer, Duxbury
Petrucelly, Nadler & Norris PC, Boston
Rackemann, Sawyer & Brewster PC, Boston
Rosenberg, Freedman & Goldstein, Newton
Mary Ellen Shea, arbitrator, private practice, Amherst
Denise Squillante PC, Fall River