In-House Counsel

Four more green technology suggestions

By Rees Morrison

These four practices, lit up by Law Tech. News, March 2009 at 39, and its profile of Gardere Wynne Sewell jking@gardere.com make sense to me. I keep composting scraps of ideas for how law departments can improve the environment (See my post of March 11, 2009: conservation steps for law departments with 7 references.).

1. Push (and enable) people to reduce junk e-mails, and remove them from servers, which decreases server heat and electricity (See my post of Nov. 6, 2006: email with 6 references.).

2. Move archived data to non-spinning drives. I think this might include some electronic discovery documents.

3. Upgrade all monitors to LCDs, which reduces the amount of heat generated.

4. Provide staff with a second LCD monitor, with the goal to ?reduce the need to print, because additional monitor space displays more content? (See my post of Nov. 9, 2008: energy worries about second monitors.).

Full post as published by Law Department Management on March 15, 2009 (boomark / email).