Environment

We follow guidance prepared by the Legal Sustainability Alliance, which brings together legal firms and organisations committed to working collaboratively to improve their environmental sustainability.

Our environmental policy

We apply the principles of Reduce, Reuse, Repair and Recycle to minimise our environmental impact and we are committed to:

• Managing, monitoring and reducing the environmental impact of our business operations.
• The efficient use of all natural resources e.g. by reducing the amount of paper and stationery and reducing energy use by having the majority of our client files as paperless.
• Minimising waste and taking every opportunity to reduce, reuse and recycle any waste we do generate. We use Recorra to ensure we recycle everything we can including crisp packets and batteries and vapes.
• Ensuring our buildings are as energy efficient as possible
• Continuing to purchase effectively and ethically, whilst considering the environmental performance of existing and potential suppliers. For example, our water coolers are responsibly sourced from AquaAid who support charities and our cleaning products are all vegan.
• Supplying fair trade and environmentally friendly kitchen supplies to staff and clients, while also reducing food miles by sourcing local food and shopping locally
• Encouraging staff to cycle, walk, share transport or use public transport where possible as alternatives to individuals each using a private car. For example, we offer the Bike to Work Scheme. If we need to travel to client meetings or Court, we will use public transport wherever possible.
• Following guidance prepared by the Legal Sustainability Alliance, a network of law firms collaborating to improve the environmental sustainability of their operations and activities
• Integrating environmental considerations into future business policy decisions

Supporting local suppliers

Sourcing our supplies locally wherever possible has become one of the cornerstones of our community engagement policy. With a number of high quality, local providers on our doorstep, we are keen to support the environment as well as local businesses such as Infinity Foods and Recorra. We use Redroaster as our coffee supplier who are recognised as one of the UKs most sustainable hospitality business and hold the highest award from the SRA.