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Our Responsibility

We are committed to undertaking our business in a socially responsible manner.

 

By combining the talents and efforts of our people, we are developing responsible business practices which will have an impact on the community, environment, work place and market place. Our goal is to integrate CSR into everything that we do.

Lexcel

Lexcel is the Law Society approved quality standard for the management of law firms and BDB gained this externally accredited standard in 2003, one of the largest London law firms to do so at the time. External assessors come into the firm each year to confirm that we are keeping up to the mark.

The standard gives particular emphasis to case and file management, client care and, most importantly, the avoidance of risk.

Corporate Social Responsibility

As a responsible business, we are committed to conducting business in a socially responsible manner.  Our goal is to integrate CSR into everything that we do.  We recognise that there is an appropriate role for business in helping to tackle some of the issues affecting out society. 

We also recognise that employee volunteering, offering our services for free, and organising charitable fundraising initiatives, creates valuable opportunities for personal development and teamwork.

Environmental policy

The Firm is committed to providing a safe, healthy and attractive working environment for our employees, visitors and others living or working in the immediate vicinity.

We will continually strive to improve our environmental performance and in particular we will:

  • Seek to ensure compliance with existing and future legislation and any other initiatives or requirements to which the firm subscribes including BS EN ISO14001:2004.
  • Work with relevant external bodies and our own staff to continually improve our environmental performance, prevent pollution and maintain safe and healthy working conditions.
  • Identify and seek to reduce any harmful environmental effects which arise from our business.
  • Minimise, re-use and recycle all materials wherever practicable.
  • Provide environmental training for our staff, and encourage them to apply good environmental practice, both at work and at home.
  • Discuss environmental issues regularly at the highest management levels of the organisation, and take authoritative action as necessary.
  • Review and revise this policy as necessary at regular intervals.
  • Our environmental management system will enable us to monitor our environmental performance, and help us achieve demanding environmental performance objectives.
  • These objectives will be set and reviewed annually and will be measurable.

Information about our environmental objectives and performance can be obtained by contacting our Environmental Manager, who would also welcome any observations you may have on the environmental aspects of our business.

 

Who we are

We are passionate about delivering on our clients' expectations.

This means taking time to understand our clients' business and their needs, to quickly establish what is and is not important, and then to cut through to the critical issues. It is a business like approach that we know differentiates us from a number of our competitors, and is equally appreciated by our clients, whether they are seeking advice in a personal capacity or on behalf of an organisation.

 

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