Charter statement and signatories

Diversity and Inclusion Charter statement

The signatories to this Charter believe that a commitment to diversity and inclusion is essential to reflect the society we serve today. It makes business sense because it helps us to attract and retain the best talent, it enables us to understand and meet clients' needs more effectively and so provide a better quality service. Accordingly, we will:

  • Strive to achieve best practice in our recruitment, retention and career progression practices as employers.
  • Support the development of good diversity practice by collecting and sharing with other signatories examples of practical activities that contribute to progress.
  • Assign responsibility for meeting our Charter commitments to a named, senior level individual.
  • Work together to develop and adopt future protocols that support the practical implementation of the aims of this Charter.
  • Publish annually the diversity profile of our UK employees and details of our work on equality, diversity and inclusion.
  • Publish a joint annual report on the basis of a monitoring exercise to measure the impact of this Diversity and Inclusion Charter and its protocols.These reports will form the basis of regular dialogue with stakeholders, employees and clients.

Benefits to Charter signatories

  • High profile public commitment to diversity and inclusion
  • Access to information, tools and examples of good practice
  • Effective benchmarking of performance
  • Opportunity to lead and shape the agenda
  • Free to sign up

Charter signatories

ABM Solicitors and Advocates
Adam Law Solicitors
Addleshaw Goddard LLP
Allen & Overy LLP
Anthony Collins Solicitors LLP
Armitage Sykes
Arora Bailey Solicitors
ASB Housing Solicitors
Ashfords LLP
Ashurst LLP
Baker & McKenzie LLP
Bargate Murrary Solicitors
Batchelors Solicitors
Bates Wells & Braithwaite London LLP
Beachcroft LLP
Berrymans Lace Mawer LLP
Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP
Bevan Brittan LLP
Bindmans LLP
Bircham Dyson Bell LLP
Bird & Bird LLP
Birketts LLP
Bishop & Sewell LLP
Blake Lapthorn
Bond Pearce LLP
Brabners Chaffe Street LLP
Bristows
BrookStreet des Roches LLP
Brown Barron Solicitors
Browne Jacobson LLP
BT PLC
Buckles Solicitors LLP
Burges Salmon LLP
BurtonCopeland LLP
Capsticks Solicitors LLP
Chambers Solicitors
Charles Crookes
Charles Russell LLP
Chebsey & Co
CKFT Solicitors
Clarke Willmott LLP
Clarkson Hirst Solicitors
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Clifford Chance LLP
CMS Cameron McKenna LLP
Cobbetts LLP
Contego
Cripps Harries Hall LLP
D & N Solicitors
DC Employment Solicitors
Devonshires
Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP
Dickinson Dees LLP
DLA Piper UK LLP
Duncan Lewis
Dundas & Wilson LLP
DWF LLP
Edgar Cule & Evans
Edwards Wildman Palmer
Emsleys
EMW Law LLP
Environment Agency
Evans & Greaves Limited
Everett Tomlin Lloyd and Pratt
Eversheds LLP
Express Solicitors
Fairfax Solicitors Limited
Farrer & Co LLP
Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP
Fishers Law
Foot Anstey Solicitors
Forbes Solicitors
Freeth Cartwright LLP
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
Glaxosmithkline
Gloucestershire Police Constabulary
Gordons LLP
Greenwoods Solicitors
Gruber Garratt
GTC Law
Guildford Borough Council
Hanne & Co Solicitors
Harold Benjamin Solicitors
Hausfeld & Co LLP
HBJ Gateley Wareing LLP
Heptonstalls LLP
Herbert Smith LLP
Hill Dickinson LLP
Hobbs Law
Hogan Lovells LLP
Holman Fenwick Willan LLP
Horsey Lightly Fynn
Housing Law Services
I.J.B.H. Limited
Ingrams Solicitors
Irwin Mitchell LLP
James Button & Co. Solicitors
Joseph Frasier Solicitors
Karen Tickner
K&L Gates LLP
Kennedys
Keystone Law
Kingsley Napley LLP
Léonie Cowen & Associates
Larcomes LLP Solicitors
Latham & Watkins

Latif Adams Solicitors
Law Partnership Solicitors
Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service
Lester Aldridge LLP
Lewis Silkin LLP
Linklaters LLP
London Borough of Islington
M&A Solicitors
Macfarlanes LLP
Malloy and Barry Solicitors
Maples Teesdales LLP
Marsons Solicitors
Martin Searle Solicitors
Martineau LLP
Mayer Brown International LLP
Mayo Wynne Baxter
McGrigors
Michelmores LLP
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP
Mills & Reeve LLP
Morgan Denton Jones
Muckle LLP
Nabarro LLP
Nalders LLP
NewLaw Legal Ltd
Nicholls and Sainsbury
North Ford Solicitors
Northumberland County Council
Norton Rose LLP
Now Legal LLP
Oliver Legal
Olswang LLP
Osborne Clarke
Osbornes
Owen White Solicitors
Pannone LLP
Parabis Law LLP
ParryWelchLacey Solicitors LLP
Paul Hastings
Penningtons Solicitors LLP
Percy Hughes & Roberts
Perrins
Pinsent Masons LLP
Portsmouth City Council
Quality Solicitors Oliver & Co
Raleys Solicitors
Red Kite Law
Reed Smith LLP
Reynolds Porter Chamberlain
Richard Adamson Family Law
Richardson & Co Solicitors LLP
Rickerbys LLP
RLE Law
Rouse Legal
Royds LLP
Rundle Walker
Russell-Cooke LLP
Sas Daniels LLP
Serenity Law LLP
Shakespeares Legal LLP Solicitors
Sharon Langridge Employment Lawyers
Sharpe Pritchard
Sharratts
Shearman & Sterling (London)
Shoosmiths
Simmons & Simmons LLP
SJ Berwin LLP
Slater Heelis
Slaughter and May
SNR Denton UK LLP
Speechly Birchams LLP
Squires Sanders (UK) LLP
Stephenson Harwood
Stephensons Solicitors LLP
SterlingKING Solicitors
SV Law
Taylor Wessing LLP
Thomas Eggar LLP
TLT LLP
Touch Solicitors
Tozers LLP
TPP Law Limited
Travers Smith LLP
Trowers & Hamlins LLP
TV Edwards LLP
Ungoed-Thomas Solicitors Ltd.
Unsworth Rose
Usmani King Solicitors
Veitch Penny LLP
Vincent Sykes & Higham LLP
Virgo Solicitors
Walker Morris
Wansbroughs Solicitors
Ward Hadaway
Watmores
Watson Farley & Williams
WBW Solicitors
Weightmans LLP
White & Black Legal LLP
White & Case LLP
Wilks Price Hounslow
Winckworth Sherwood LLP
Withers LLP
Woodcocks
Woolley & Co
Wragge & Co LLP
Wright Hassall LLP

Registration

To sign-up to the Charter email inclusioncharter@lawsociety.org.uk.

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