Sustainability Advisory Practice

As sustainability expectations become more rigorous, organizations face growing pressure from regulators, investors, customers, and supply chain partners. Companies are being asked to, and are expected to, make sustainability commitments, measure progress, disclose impacts, and substantiate claims – often while dealing with fragmented rules, inconsistent data, and internal data gaps. The result is a complex environment where legal, compliance, operational, and reputational risks increasingly intersect and where reliable strategic advisory services are critical. 

How We Help

The Firm’s Sustainability Law Practice helps small to mid-sized clients anticipate change, identify and manage risk, and build practical programs that align legal obligations with business objectives. We advise on sustainability governance, climate and ESG disclosure, supply chain due diligence, product and packaging claims, responsible sourcing, stakeholder reporting, and compliance program design.

Key Client Challenges

Regulatory Complexity: interpreting overlapping sustainability, climate, environmental, and consumer protection requirements across jurisdictions.

Rapidly Changing Legal Landscape: keeping pace with emerging disclosure rules, enforcement priorities, reporting frameworks, and stakeholder expectations.

Data Gaps and Governance Challenges: identifying what information exists, where it resides, how reliable it is, and how it supports public statements or regulatory filings.

Claims and Reputational Risks: Reviewing sustainability, circularity, and responsible sourcing claims to reduce exposure to greenwashing allegations.

Operational Alignment: Translating legal requirements into practical policies, controls, training, and cross-functional implementation plans.

Our Approach

We combine legal insight with practical business judgment. The Firm works closely with your company’s legal, compliance, finance, and operations leaders to assess legal risks, close data gaps, strengthen governance, and develop defensible sustainability strategies that can withstand regulatory and stakeholder scrutiny.

Representative Services

• Sustainability and ESG regulatory readiness assessments
• Navigating the myriad number of sustainability certifications and advising on their benefit to your company’s operations and goals
• Green claims, marketing, and labeling review
• Changing Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) rules and regulations
• Supply chain due diligence and responsible sourcing programs
• Compliance program design and policy development
• Risk assessments for transactions, investments, and strategic initiatives

Move Forward with Confidence

In an environment defined by regulatory complexity, accelerating expectations, and incomplete information, companies need risk management strategic advisory services that turn uncertainty into action. Our Sustainability Advisory Practice helps organizations make informed decisions, reduce risk, and build credible, resilient sustainability programs.

The Firm’s sustainability services are offered on a month to month basis, in six-month increments, and on a yearly subscription basis. These plans offer a set amount of advisory time and our monthly sustainability activity update e-mailed to your company. Contact the Firm for plans and rates that can assist your company in affordably meeting the growing demands of the sustainability market.