Corporate Responsibility
" This is clear blue water...Simmons & Simmons are embedding themselves into the community." Judges, HR Lawyer Awards 2010
As a leading international law firm, we recognise our responsibilities to our clients, members of the firm, suppliers and the wider communities in which we live and work. This includes our responsibility to reduce our environmental impact.
Led by David Dickinson, our senior partner, a corporate responsibility (CR) project was begun in 2007, with the aim of ensuring that all the good initiatives already underway were brought together, providing focus, clarity and direction. In doing this we have succeeded in strengthening the overall approach and contribution of Simmons & Simmons to CR.
The Simmons & Simmons Corporate Responsibility Review 2009/10
Find out more about our CR achievements and the challenges we faced in 2009/10 in the first of our annual corporate responsibility reviews.
Click here to view the online version of our corporate responsibility review 2009/10.
Alternatively download a pdf of the review here.
Prime Minister for the day
Whilst we were working on the CR review we asked the children who we mentor at Argyle Primary School in London to tell us what they would do to make the world a better place if they were the UK's Prime Minister for a day. Their answers and illustrations can be viewed here.
Our CR strategy
Our strategy focuses on four themes: governance; addressing social exclusion; providing a challenging and supportive working environment; and environmental sustainability.
We demonstrate our commitment to our stakeholders by:
- providing legal services according to the highest ethical and professional standards
- integrating diversity into all of our activities and creating an inclusive environment in which all can fulfil their potential
- operating from day to day in an environmentally and socially responsible way, for example, by minimising material use and recycling where cost effective and appropriate
- engaging in pro bono programmes where our lawyers provide legal advice on a free or discounted basis to charities and those in need
- aiming to support and strengthen local communities, for example, through various school mentoring schemes
- actively promoting and participating in payroll giving and fund raising for our charity of the year
- promoting the advancement of and participation in the arts and cultural life, for example, through our recognised contemporary art collection
We are proud to have been shortlisted for CSR programme of the year at the 2009 Legal Business Awards.
