4cLegal ESG Standards
ESG Accreditation for Professional Firms and Legal Departments
Sustainable development is intimately related to the culture of all organizations, including those operating in the legal market. Being officially recognized as sustainable operators and being validated your ESG policies allows you to meet the needs of the changing market, whose attention is increasingly directed to the ‘purpose’ and behaviors of professional firms and corporate legal departments.
The Next Frontier for the Legal Market?
We call it ‘Sustainability’.
In 4cLegal, theoretical principles are always matched with the necessary solutions to implement them. After long research, development and reflections, we are now finally able to outline our proposal: ESG Accreditation for Professional Firms and corporate Legal Departments. Today, lawyers can be advocates and leaders of change with 4cLegal: your new Partner in the ESG Transition.
For Professional Firms
ESG Accreditation
‘ESG Accreditation for Professional Firms’ is a tool devised to pinpoint and highlight ESG-compliant behaviors in your firm, and to create a Community of Professional Firms that meet specific sustainability benchmarks, thus contributing to creating a sustainable supply chain with their clients.
Advantages
- Sustainable system of governance: implementing a consistent system of sustainability governance, based on objective evidence
- Objective validation: obtaining a third-party, independent validation of your ESG policies
- Greater market attractiveness: positioning your firm in a way that meets the market requests and is appealing to new potential clients
- Employee loyalty: developing a culture and a system of governance that favor talent attraction, development and retention
For Legal Departments
ESG Accreditation
Discover our new ‘ESG Accreditation for Legal Departments’: a tool devised to pinpoint and highlight ESG-compliant behaviors in your Legal Department, and to create a Community of Corporate Legal Departments that meet specific sustainability benchmarks and generate sustainable value to the benefit of their organization.
Advantages
- Sustainable system of governance: implementing a consistent system of sustainability governance, based on objective evidence
- Objective validation: obtaining a third-party, independent validation of your ESG policies
- Generating value for your organization: effectively contributing to sustainability in your organization and consequently generating value
- Becoming sustainability leaders: promoting the active role of Legal Departments in targeting sustainability goals within and outside your organization
Supply Chain ESG Accreditation
Discover our new ‘Supply Chain ESG Accreditation’: a tool devised to pinpoint and check the ESG policies of a professional collaborating with your organization. Its goal is helping a corporate legal department foster the creation of a supply chain composed by ESG-compliant Professional Firms. Being ESG-compliant is now a specific condition – or, in some cases, a preferable criterion – to be eligible as a service provider.
Advantages
- Sustainable Legal Procurement: promoting an ESG-compliant supply chain by actually implementing the principles of circular sustainability
- Objective validation: obtaining a third-party, independent validation of the sustainability of your supply chain
- Generating value for your organization: effectively contributing to sustainability in your organization and consequently generating value
- Active role of the Legal Department: promoting the active role of Legal Departments in targeting sustainability goals within and outside your organization
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