Number of Team Members: 5 including our founder
Gender Ratio: 3 Males : 2 Females
Our DEI Philosophy:
We believe that our human capital is our most valuable asset. Diversity and inclusion are therefore more than core values, they are essential to our firm.
Our firm is the collective sum of the individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, creativity, self-expression, unique capabilities and talent of our team members. We actively seek diversity as we grow.
Our firm sees diversity as consisting of several layers. The first layer of diversity is team composition and the need to ensure that our team consists of and is represented by members from diverse backgrounds, be that in terms of gender, ethnicity, age or other characteristics. The second layer of diversity is the institution of policies and team culture to promote inclusion. And the third layer, we believe, is the diversity of thoughts and experiences cultivated through the exchange of thoughts and experiences accumulated by different team members, which can then cross-pollinate and germinate into new ideas. This forms the philosophy of our approach towards diversity and inclusion.
Because our law firm is still very young and our team is small, we cannot meaningfully assess the first layer of diversity against our firm’s team composition, although this was certainly factored in and will continue to factor into each and every one of our hiring decisions – we do not discriminate based on age, gender, ethnicity, religion, seniority, political affiliation or any other characteristics that make our team members unique. However, we have built in policies in our firm culture to ensure that the second and third layer of diversity are deeply embedded:
- We promote a flat structure where regardless of seniority every team member has an opportunity to participate in decision making as to the firm direction and to represent the firm externally. To date, our firm’s business strategy, positioning and branding, for instance, is shaped by the collective ideas and preferences of our founding team members.
- Every team member has equal access to the opportunities that the firm offers, be that work or professional development and training. Team members are encouraged to voice their needs, desires or concerns at any time, which will be discussed, given due consideration and properly addressed. We want to contribute to the growth of our team members to empower them to work towards their own goals and missions.
- It is our belief that happy team members make higher-performing ones. We have created a dynamic, flexible and exciting workplace where our team members are motivated. Not only do we value work/life balance through flexible work schedules and arrangements to accommodate our team members’ varying needs, we also ensure that the work they are doing is meaningful and in areas they are motivated to work on. Contrary to convention, we do not impose target hours on fee earners or any maximum annual leave entitlement. We believe that giving team members a flexible working arrangement encourages them to explore their own passions, personal development and balance, which in turn, allows them to develop new thoughts and experiences and ultimately this contributes to the diversity of our firm.
Scaling our diversity goes hand in hand with scaling our business. We invite lawyers and ESG professionals who want to take on the challenge of accelerating the sustainability transition to join us and contribute to the diversity of our firm’s thoughts and experiences to innovate the systems transition towards a sustainable economy together.
