Environmental Sustainability
Steptoe works to protect our shared resources and minimize the environmental impact of our business operations. We are a member of the Law Firm Sustainability Network, a nonprofit organization of law firms and legal departments committed to promoting the benefits of environmental sustainability and corporate social responsibility. In addition, Steptoe lawyers and business services members regularly volunteer or provide pro bono assistance to organizations across the globe that are dedicated to sustainability, conservation, and environmental education.
Sustainability Highlights
Firm-wide Recycling & Energy Efficiency
- Maintain an aggressive recycling program throughout our offices, shredding and recycling hundreds of thousands of pounds of paper each year.
- Annually help plant one tree on behalf of each Steptoe employee, with an aggregate of more than 9,000 trees planted to date.
- Offset hundreds of millions of metric tons of air travel emissions.
- All US offices are LEED-certified.
- Energy reduction achieved through vacancy sensors, LED lights, sleep modes for monitors, copiers and printers.
- All printers set to produce double-sided copies.
Washington, DC Office
- Awarded Fitwel 2 Star Certification.
- Contains three green living walls yielding 7,500 potted plants.
- Car charging stations.
- Bike room equipped with tire pump, repair bench, lockers, showers and storage racks for up to 36 bikes.
- Within one block of metro station.
Café Compost Program
- Compostable waste picked up by a local vendor two times weekly.
- Food waste converted to top-soil and returned to our roof-top gardens, where vegetables are grown in a 200-square foot garden, and flowers are grown in 800 square feet of flower beds.