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Building socially sustainable legal teams

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    Cultivating a socially sustainable workforce is essential for organisations aiming to address the needs of the present while ensuring that future requirements are not compromised.

    To explore how in-house legal teams can build socially sustainable workforces, Ashurst Reach – together with the Association of Corporate Counsel Australia – recently ran our third national roundtable series.

    Key insights

    The report shares insights from the roundtables on approaches in-house legal teams can take to increase social sustainability:

    • Build a culture with clearly understandable and demonstratable values, which is underpinned by effective leadership and respect for employees outside interests.
    • Develop hiring practices which account for conscious and unconscious biases, and remove barriers so that all candidates hired are the best candidates for the role.
    • Foster approaches to personal development and training that are both inclusive and creative, and invest in both learnt and innate skills needed for today and tomorrow.

    Download the full Ashurst Reach Social Sustainability report below. 

    Download report [PDF 533KB]

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    Author: Linda Grace, Partner & Head of Reach.

    The information provided is not intended to be a comprehensive review of all developments in the law and practice, or to cover all aspects of those referred to.
    Readers should take legal advice before applying it to specific issues or transactions.

    Editorial Disclaimer

    Originally published before the Ashurst Perkins Coie combination. See disclaimer.

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