For law firms

Law firms have an unusual compliance problem.

Your clients want EcoVadis scores, SOC 2 reports, and AI policies. Your ops team is small. Your core business isn’t compliance. We bridge the gap, with the experts, the platform, and the work, done for you.

Firms that work with Greenplaces
Goodwin Procter
K&L Gates
Troutman Pepper
Sheppard Mullin
Nixon Peabody
Davis Wright
Lowenstein Sandler
Willkie Farr
Seyfarth Shaw
O’Melveny & Myers
Venable
Chapman and Cutler
The three pressures

Same source, three different questionnaires.

Enterprise clients drive all three. Procurement teams send the questionnaires. RFPs require the certifications. None of it is your core business. All of it can get you dropped from a panel if you don’t have an answer.

Pressure 01 · Sustainability

Client sustainability questionnaires

Your enterprise clients send EcoVadis and CDP questionnaires that take weeks to complete and risk dropping you from procurement lists if you score poorly. Their sustainability commitments now depend on yours.

Pressure 02 · Trust

Vendor security & SOC 2

Procurement teams demand SOC 2 reports and detailed security questionnaires from law firms, without giving you the security team to build them. Some firms have lost matters over an unanswered SIG-Lite.

Pressure 03 · AI governance

AI policy & acceptable use

Clients want to know exactly how you use AI on their matters. State bars are formalizing rules. Your firm needs a defensible policy, an inventory of AI tools, and a way to answer client questionnaires, fast.

Why law firms specifically

The economics are unique. The risk is too.

Law firms aren’t structured to run compliance programs. There’s no dedicated sustainability team. The security stack is built around client confidentiality, not enterprise-grade frameworks. AI policy is being figured out in real time. Yet the questionnaires keep arriving, and ignoring them isn’t an option when a single matter can be worth seven figures.

We’ve built our practice around how law firms actually operate: partner-led decision making, sensitivity around client data, the need to engage with frameworks without distorting the practice itself. Most of our law-firm engagements move through ops, IT, or a managing partner, not a CSO or VP of sustainability, because most firms don’t have those roles.

Law firms increasingly face EcoVadis assessments as clients formalize supplier sustainability requirements. Security questionnaires are the most common trigger, our trust and SOC 2 readiness program handles them end to end. Firms are also fielding AI governance policy requests alongside traditional compliance asks.

When two of our biggest clients sent EcoVadis requests within the same month, we knew we couldn’t have an associate spend their summer on it. Greenplaces ran the entire submission. We provided a few hours of input across the firm. We scored higher than firms twice our size.
Managing Partner, Mid-market law firm
How we work with firms

One engagement. Three pillars. Partner-friendly model.

01 · Map

We map the asks you’re getting

Send us the questionnaires landing in inboxes across the firm, sustainability, security, AI. We tell you which ones are commercially material, which are routine, and which need work right now.

02 · Build

We build the foundation once

The data, policies, and evidence required for EcoVadis are the same that feed SOC 2 readiness, that anchor your AI governance program. Build it once with us. Reuse across every framework.

03 · Respond

We respond on your behalf

Every future questionnaire, from a client, from procurement, from a regulator, we handle. Your firm answers with confidence. Your partners get their time back.

What partners and operations leaders ask us

Common questions from law firms.

We’re a small firm. Is this overkill?

No. Small and mid-market firms are exactly who we built this for. Doing this in-house, through a hire or a traditional consultant, is what costs too much at your scale. Our model lets a 50-attorney firm have the same answer to “what’s your AI policy” as a 500-attorney firm.

How do you handle client confidentiality?

We don’t need client matter data to do any of this work. Our scope is firm-level: your policies, your training, your tools, your reporting. The frameworks we manage are about how the firm operates, not what’s in any individual matter file. Our security posture is SOC 2 Type II.

Do you work with a specific size of firm?

Our customers range from 30-attorney boutiques to 1,000+ attorney AmLaw firms. The economics work best for firms in the 50–500 range where the asks are real but a dedicated compliance hire isn’t justified.

Can we engage you for just one pillar?

Yes. Most firms start with whatever’s most urgent, usually a customer EcoVadis request or a SOC 2 ask. We add the other pillars as they come up, often within the same calendar year because the questionnaires keep arriving.

Built for firms whose business isn’t compliance.

30-minute strategy call. Bring the questionnaires landing in your inboxes. We’ll map what’s required and what we can take off your plate.