Responsible Business

Responsible Business Report

Financial year 2023-2024

As a leading global law firm, Ashurst is committed to making a positive impact in the communities in which we operate. We focus on sustainable practices, adhering to the highest ethical and governance standards, and supporting our people to be the best they can be.

Our inaugural Responsible Business Report highlights our key aspirations and commitments in responsible business practices. This report outlines our efforts and progress in meeting these goals for the financial year 2023-2024. We aim to continuously improve and transparently report on our efforts, and we look forward to regularly updating our stakeholders in the future.

Our report highlights our responsible business efforts and progress in the following areas:

  • Empowering our people – including our Inclusion, Diversity and Belonging Strategy, and our career progression and wellbeing initiatives.
  • Promoting prosperity in our communities – including our pro bono and social impact programmes, in areas as diverse as citizenship and displacement, climate change, gender rights and diversity, modern slavery and racial justice.
  • Protecting our planet – including our net-zero targets aligned to the Science Based Targets initiative.
  • Employing sound principles of governance – including supporting the highest ethical standards and investments in digital security.
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Responsible Business Report

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"Ashurst thrives and our clients benefit when our people are recognised, respected and able to be their full selves at work. We are incredibly proud of this report and what we have achieved over the past financial year in relation to our Responsible Business practices."

Karen Davies, Global Chair

Responsible Business Report at a glance

Our committment - Ashurst is committed to keeping our people, our clients, regulators and the community informed of our responsible business practices and activities.
Empowering our people - A range of policies and initiatives relating to IDB, wellbeing, flexible work, and career development. 34% women partners globally. 34% women in senior business services leadership roles. Almost 1000 participants in our career transition programmes
Promoting prosperity in our communities. 65,500 hours devoted to pro bono work, representing over 13% growth year over year. 1,300 pro bono volunteers worked on 683 pro bono matter
Protecting our planet - We are targeting a fall of 42% in our Scope 1 and 2 emissions by FY 2030 34% of our scope 2 electricity came from renewable sources
Employing sound principles of governance - To enhance collaboration on sustainability, we have 3 steering committees: Responsible Business Steering Committee, Clients and Markets Sustainability Steering Committee, Business Strategic Alignment Steering Committee, Our governance structure also includes our Board and Executive Team.
Quote from Karen Davies, Global Chair of Ashurst. “To our valued clients, partners, people and suppliers, thank you for your support and collaboration as we work to outpace change and build a more-sustainable future.”

Download our infographic [PDF 293KB] for key highlights from our Responsible Business Report.

Responsible business means business behaving responsibly

Watch our video to learn more about our Responsible Business practices

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