Austria: Vienna

'Our corporate social responsibility programme is small, but we are confident it will provide the foundation for developing future initiatives.'
Christof Pöchhacker, partner responsible for CSR in Vienna

Our office in Vienna organises a social afternoon in a nursing home each Christmas. One of our partners plays the piano, while associates and secretaries sing in a chorus. The other attendees chat and sing with the elderly people and a group of dancers with disabilities performs at the event.

The office also collects clothes for homeless people every Christmas.

In 2008, 29 lawyers from our offices in Vienna, Frankfurt, Brussels and London participated in the Vienna City Marathon, raising funds for sporting events for people with disabilities.

As part of Community Challenge, in October 2008, volunteers from the Vienna office worked with an orphanage called Europahaus des Kindes.

Note: Christof used to be CSR partner for Bratislava as well as Vienna. We closed our office in Bratislava in April 2009. We are continuing to work in central and eastern Europe, largely from our offices in Vienna and London, we also refer work to, or co-operate on a case-by-case basis, with two or three leading local law firms in Slovakia.