• Social Responsibility
• Health Professionals
• Culture
• Asbestos Research Fund
• Slater & Gordon Foundation

Social Responsibility    

The Community

1. Pro Bono Publico (Pro Bono) & Public Interest Policy

• Slater & Gordon staff perform thousands of hours of free pro bono work per year.  Pro bono work will now be operated pursuant to a specific policy with benchmarks, funding and performance standards.

2. Slater & Gordon Fund

• Ongoing commitment to the charitable work of the fund in providing assistance to worthy bodies and injured people.
• Link financial support to Pro Bono work.
• Staff, company and client contributions.

3. Slater & Gordon Asbestos Research Fund

• Ongoing support to the donation of funds towards medical research and development in relation to asbestos-related diseases.

4. Slater & Gordon Social Work Services

• Providing social work services to clients of Slater & Gordon including counselling and referral services.
• Social worker Olga Gountras is now part of the Slater & Gordon team.

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The Environment

1. Reducing Slater & Gordon’s carbon footprint

• Assessments for all Victorian offices by Carbon Planet.

2. Quantum reduction in paper – vision of “paperless briefs by 2012”

3. Green requirements in all new office leases

• New Melbourne office 4.5 star rating.

4. Improved recycling

5. Ethical suppliers

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The Market

1. Business ethics

• Code of conduct for lawyers being developed.

2. Influence on ‘rules of the marketplace’

• Lobbying;
• Public interest cases; and
• Market changing commercial initiatives (changes to market practices which improve access and/or fairness);
• Best example in the past is the No Win - No Fee ™ scheme;
• More extensive use of fixed fee arrangements a future option.

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The Workplace

1. Diversity

• Managing workplace diversity successfully can be an important factor in helping us realise the full potential of our employees and hence achieve our business goals.
• Policy being finalised.

2. An inclusive and supportive culture

• Regular staff satisfaction surveys;
• Increasing emphasis on health and wellbeing initiatives.

3. Personal development

• Increasingly integrated career maps, development plans, succession planning.

4. Employee engagement in Social Responsibility program

• Participation in committees and initiatives;
• Pro Bono work; and
• Contributions to Slater & Gordon Fund.

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