ATLANTA — Kilpatrick Stockton LLP has announced that it will launch a firm Green Initiative effective Oct. 1.

As a centerpiece to the firm's Green Initiative, the firm also announced that it has become a signatory to the recently adopted ABA/EPA Law Office Climate Challenge. Kilpatrick Stockton is the first AmLaw 100 firm based in Atlanta to sign on to this environmental policy.

As a signatory in the program, the firm has agreed to implement all three components of the Climate Challenge: the Energy Star Program, the Green Power Partnership Program and the WasteWise Program. For more information on the ABA/EPA Law Office Climate Challenge, visit www.abanet.org/environ/climatechallenge/.

Throughout the year, a committee of Kilpatrick Stockton professionals representing all departments and offices has been studying the firm's sustainability efforts to make a detailed recommendation for enhancing the firm's commitment to the environment. Each of the firm's offices will be holding internal events the week of Oct. 13 to officially launch the program. Throughout the coming months, the firm will continue to hold events and adopt initiatives to educate and engage its employees to be environmentally conscientious both at work and at home.

Kilpatrick Stockton is a full-service international law firm with nearly 500 attorneys in nine offices across the globe: Atlanta and Augusta, Ga.; Charlotte, Raleigh and Winston-Salem, N.C.; New York; Washington, D.C.; London; and Stockholm, Sweden. For more information, visit www.kilpatrickstockton.com.