Community and pro bono legal advice

What we said we would do firm-wide in 2006 What we had done firm-wide by end 2007 What we are going to do firm-wide
  • Maintain a high level of involvement in community projects.
  • Spread our involvement in community work throughout the firm.
  • The level of participation in London has very slightly increased (by 1 per cent to 35 per cent) and we have measured for the first time participation levels across the firm.
  • We have launched the firm-wide Community Challenge to increase participation and evaluated our programme using surveys and the London Benchmarking Group model.
  • We have also set up a new community and pro bono committee and co-ordinators throughout the network who have responsibility for developing and implementing our programme.
  • Increase the level of participation in our community and pro bono programme across the firm to 30 per cent by 2009, achieving a more consistent spread of involvement across our offices.
  • Measure the benefits to society of our programme in a more systematic way, including undertaking surveys of our community and pro bono partners.
  • Further develop our community and pro bono programme.