Corporate social
responsibility

Reducing our environmental impact

Like our clients, we have a responsibility to make a difference. Our core value, "doing the right thing", means ensuring we do everything possible to reduce our output of greenhouse gases through our infrastructure, processes and systems. We know that with some key changes, we can become a much greener, cleaner firm and play our part as a responsible business. 

We’ve made good progress already, for example: 

• In our Birmingham, Leeds, London and Manchester offices we recycle almost all of our waste. Any waste that cannot be recycled is sent to generate green energy rather than sent to landfill.
• We’ve become a paper-lite business, with energy saving measures such as LED lighting in place in all of our offices.
• We have a lean infrastructure – for example we don’t have any company cars, and hybrid working created a good opportunity to reduce our office footprint and also reduce travel, while still staying connected.
• We’re members of the Legal Sustainability Alliance, the leading sustainability network for law firms and the UK legal sector. 

But we recognise that there’s more that we need to do and that it’s an ongoing process. Our environmental sustainability plan and carbon reduction plan set out key commitments allowing us to act responsibly by off-setting our known current emission while setting targets to reduce our overall emissions by 2040.