ESG HUB

4cLegal ESG Specialistic Training

What is it?
It is the first online video course to acquire qualified competence in sustainability and know deeply the 27 Sustainability Items allowing Professional Firms to be accredited by 4cLegal and validated their sustainable commitment.

You will have access to:
27 online training videos about the most important ESG-relevant topics for Professional Firms

Access to Reserved 4cLegal ESG content

You will have free and unlimited access to 4cLegal contents about sustainability as related to the legal market and the other professions, for the entire duration of your subscription. With two reserved reports you will be constantly updated about ESG topics and a conscious part of the transition to sustainability.

ESG Community Networking Events

Throughout the year, 4cLegal offers exclusive networking opportunities where you will have the chance to interact and be inspired on the evolution of the sustainable legal market, with the Legal Departments of big companies, national and international Law Firms, ESG stakeholders. By subscribing to 4cLegal ESG Community, you will be able to participate to two networking events a year for free.

Further discussion moments with keynote speakers

Many opportunities to share opinions and learn more about ESG for Professional Firms with the protagonists of sustainability at the national and international level: exclusive opportunities to meet, listen to and debate with the leading representatives of the subject. You will have free access to three meetings a year with keynote speakers, to explore sustainable best practices and trends in the legal world.

4cLegal ESG bimonthly newsletter

Every two months, you will receive a useful newsletter by 4cLegal about the hottest topics and the news from the sector.

10% discount on the purchase of 4cLegal Accreditation Plans

4cLegal offers the members of its community a 10% discount on the purchase of one of its ESG Accreditation plans, to be chosen between ESG Merit First, ESG Merit Pro and Unlimited ESG Accreditation.

What are the advantages?

• An extraordinary opportunity to boost your career for young talents: every professional firm will need experts on ESG topics, but these new skills are not available yet on the market. You could be the one to offer them;


• A chance for the partners of professional firms to meet the market demand head-on: today the quality of an organization is no longer just a matter of merit and competence. For the same level of service, an increasing number of clients choose the most sustainable professionals. Don’t get caught unprepared. Don’t miss the chance.

ESG Merit First Plan

Our service ‘ESG Qualification for Professional Firms’ aims at promoting the sustainable practices and behaviors of professional firms in the ESG areas (Environmental, Social and Governance) and creating a community of professional firms that meet specific sustainability parameters and take the lead in the ESG transition.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

After registering at panel.4clegal.com, each Firm can select –from a list of ESG-relevant items– the items it believes it meets by describing the policies and behaviors actually adopted, and attaching, if necessary, relevant documentation.

Here you can find the list of ESG items you can select.

To be considered true and authentic, such self-declarations have to be confirmed -via an automatic procedure managed by the platform- by specific stakeholders. The stakeholders have a relationship with the firm and are in a position that allows them to confirm the actual implementation of the self-declared policies and behaviors. Once the stakeholders have confirmed the declaration’s truthfulness and authenticity and 4c has successfully carried out the relevant checks, the self-declaration is to all intents and purposes ‘validated’. The validated sustainability self-declarations will be represented in the form of ‘diplomas’, valid for one year. The Firm will use them freely in its communication activities and will commit to inform 4cLegal of any significant changes.

ESG QUALIFICATION: THE PROCESS

HOW TO ACTIVATE THE PROCESS OF VALIDATION REQUEST

1. Choose the option that suits your needs best
2. Buy it on 4cLegal.com
3. The process is on: start applying for the validation of your sustainability elements!

ESG Merit Pro Plan

4cLegal ‘ESG Qualification for Professional Firms’ aims at promoting the sustainable practices and behaviors of professional firms in the ESG areas (Environmental, Social and Governance) and creating a community of professional firms that meet specific sustainability parameters and take the lead in the ESG transition.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

After registering at panel.4clegal.com each Firm can select –from a list of ESG-relevant items– the items it believes it meets by describing the policies and behaviors actually adopted, and attaching, if necessary, appropriate supporting documentation.

Here you can find the list of ESG items you can select.

To be considered true and authentic, such self-declarations have to be confirmed -via an automatic procedure managed by the platform- by specific stakeholders, individuals who, because of their relationship with the firm, are in such a position that they can confirm the actual implementation of the self-declared policies and behaviors. Once the stakeholders have confirmed the truthfulness and authenticity of the declarations and 4cLegal has successfully carried out the relevant checks, the self-declaration is to all intents and purposes ‘validated’. The validated sustainability self-declarations will be represented in the form of Sustainability Accreditation ‘diplomas’, valid for one year. The Firm will use them freely in its communication activities and will commit to inform 4cLegal of any significant changes.

ESG ACCREDITATION: THE PROCESS

HOW TO ACTIVATE THE PROCESS OF VALIDATION REQUEST

1. Choose the option that suits your needs best
2. Buy it on 4cLegal.com
3. The process is on: start applying for the validation of your sustainability elements!

Unlimited ESG Accreditation

4cLegal ‘ESG Qualification for Professional Firms’ aims at promoting the sustainable practices and behaviors of professional firms in the ESG areas (Environmental, Social and Governance) and creating a community of professional firms that meet specific sustainability parameters and take the lead in the ESG transition.

CHOW DOES IT WORK?

After registering at panel.4clegal.com, each Firm can select –from a list of ESG-relevant items– the items it believes it meets by describing the policies and behaviors actually adopted, and attaching, if necessary, appropriate supporting documentation.

Here you can find the list of ESG items you can select.

To be considered true and authentic, such self-declarations have to be confirmed -via an automatic procedure managed by the platform- by specific stakeholders, individuals who, because of their relationship with the firm, are in such a position that they can confirm the actual implementation of the self-declared policies and behaviors. Once the stakeholders have confirmed the truthfulness and authenticity of the declarations and 4cLegal has successfully carried out the relevant checks, the self-declaration is to all intents and purposes ‘validated’. The validated sustainability self-declarations will be represented in the form of Sustainability Accreditation ‘diplomas’, valid for one year. The Firm will use them freely in its communication activities and will commit to inform 4cLegal of any significant changes.

ESG ACCREDITATION: THE PROCESS

HOW TO ACTIVATE THE PROCESS OF VALIDATION REQUEST

1. Choose the option that suits your needs best
2. Buy it on 4cLegal.com
3. The process is on: start applying for the validation of your sustainability elements!

WHAT IS IT?

4cLegal Enterprise is a software designed to allow national and international big corporations to organize their legal procurement processes in a way that is simple, efficient and transparent. It also allows them to highlight the professionals’ real skills, thanks to a fully sustainable system of governance. In detail, via our platform, companies can select professionals in the following sectors:

• legal and tax services;
• corporate secretarial services;
• IP services;
• auditing activities;
• creation of audit bodies (board of statutory auditors);
• creation of supervisory bodies.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

Via 4cLegal Enterprise, the company describes the mandate or the access conditions to its panel of accredited fiduciaries, then invites firms to present their offer or apply for the panel. Each firm sends their offer, highlighting their experiences, skills, possible sustainability policies, and finally economic requirements. The company compares each offer and eventually assigns the mandate or accredits the best firms in its panel of fiduciaries.

4cLegal Enterprise has various functions and advantages. It allows companies to:

• create a digital panel of professionals (e.g., lawyers, accountants, labor consultants, notaries, IP consultants, auditors) through a structured accreditation process (‘due diligence’);
• carry out comparative procedures for assigning legal and consulting mandates (‘digital beauty contests’);
• keep track of the assigned mandates;
• create a rating of professionals for internal use.

Discover all its functions here.

WHAT IS IT?

The Supply Chain ESG Qualification is one of 4cLegal Enterprise’s features. This “software as a service” gathers and objectively represents a professional’s set of characteristics, experiences and skills so that the company can choose rationally and efficiently based on its scope of work; the Supply Chain ESG Qualification also allows the company to check if its legal services providers fulfill those ESG parameters that are crucial to ensure a sustainable supply chain.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

4c and the client share the ESG parameters (items) that professional firms are invited to highlight in their offer. Those items will be verified and attested by 4c. The firms will be invited to access a platform specifically designed for that purpose and to select the ESG items they think they meet, by describing the policies they implemented and attaching relevant documents. Our team will then verify the self-declarations of each firm and activate a confirmation procedure involving relevant stakeholders. If the item is confirmed by our team, it will be considered validated and the procedure will be reported on the proper report delivered to the client.

Here you can find the list of ESG items you can select.

WHAT IS IT?

ESG Accreditation for Legal Departments pinpoints and highlights ESG-compliant behaviors of Corporate Legal Departments, and aims at creating a Community of Legal Departments that meet specific sustainability benchmarks and create sustainable value at the advantage of their organizations.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

Legal Departments select the sustainability elements they want to validate and provide all the relevant information for their assessment and confirmation.

Here you can find the list of ESG items you can select.

To be considered true and authentic, self-declarations have to be confirmed -the procedure is automatic and is managed via 4cLegal Enterprise- by specific stakeholders. The stakeholders have a relationship with the legal department and are in a position that allows them to confirm the actual implementation of the self-declared policies and behaviors. Once the stakeholders have confirmed the truthfulness and authenticity of the declarations and 4c has successfully carried out the relevant checks, the self-declaration is to all intents and purposes ‘validated’. The validated sustainability self-declarations will be represented in the form of ‘diplomas’, valid for one year. The Legal Department will use them freely in its communication activities.

ESG ACCREDITATION: THE PROCESS