Responsible operations

Key outcomes in 2007/8

  • We committed over 1% of partners’ global pre-tax income to Community Investment (CI) work, over £3.75 million in London alone.
  • Our lawyers spent over 32,000 hours on volunteering activity through the firm's CI programme, of which 23,000 hours constituted free legal advice and representation.
  • We generated 6.58 tonnes of CO2 emissions per person, calculated from our global energy use and business travel. A grid average electricity quotient was applied to all our renewable energy sources.

Goals for 2008/9

  • We are developing mechanisms by which to record community investment activity consistently and accurately across our global offices during 2009.
  • We will develop an impact evaluation model for CI activity.
  • We are commencing development and implementation of an Environmental Management System which will cover all the regions in which we operate.
  • We are improving our global environmental data collection and our communication of this data and resulting targets.