Building socially sustainable legal teams

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.

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