General

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
  • Provide a fully validated and externally audited CSR report that encompasses the entire firm by 2007.
  • Raise awareness of CSR among all our people.
  • Employ a full-time CSR officer.
  • Conduct an annual internal review of how we implement our CSR policies.
  • Become a signatory of the United Nations Global Compact, a framework for businesses committed to aligning their operations and strategies with 10 principles in the areas of human rights, labour, the environment and anticorruption, and a member of the United Nations Environment Programme.
  • Collect consistent data from across the firm.
  • We have produced a fully validated and externally audited firm-wide report and, in the process, reviewed how we implement our CSR policies.
  • We have introduced new ways of communicating our activities – regular e-bulletins, green guides and new intranet pages.
  • We now have a head of CSR.
  • We have set in place new systems for collecting data designed to make our data reporting more consistent in the future.
  • We remain committed to joining the United Nations Global Compact. We hope this CSR report will help us to achieve this.
  • Continue to use recognised benchmarks and set meaningful targets to demonstrate our commitment to being a leader among international law firms in terms of social and environmental responsibility, especially in terms of carbon neutrality.
  • Assess ourselves against our values.
  • Continue to update our data on an annual basis and to report on key initiatives and activities. Our next externally audited report will be in 2009.
  • Further integrate CSR throughout the firm.
  • Become a signatory of United Nations Global Compact.
  • Collect consistent data from across the firm.