RESPONSIBLE BUSINESS

Bellevue Law is proud to be certified as a B Corp.

This certification demonstrates our commitment to meeting the highest ESG standards and to ensuring that business ethics, people and sustainability are a part of everything we do as a firm.

B Corp – a commitment to being a force for positive change

B Corps are businesses that are certified as demonstrating the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance, public transparency and legal accountability to balance profit and purpose.

Becoming a certified B Corporation is considered to be “one of the most rigorous, comprehensive and rewarding business processes”.

At the time of our certification in March 2024, Bellevue Law was only the 15th law firm in the UK to become B Corp accredited. We achieved a verified B Impact score of 88.6 points on certification, with 80 points required to certify.

The process of gaining certification has been hugely worthwhile to the firm, its people and our clients, and we are proud to join a community of businesses committed to being a force for positive change.

Importantly, our B Corp certification not only commits us to publishing an Impact Report (see below) every year, but will establish a benchmark against which to measure our impact – being accountable is an important part of being a responsible business.

We are committed to continuous improvement of our ESG impact on the path to recertification as a B Corp in 2027, and will be monitoring our progress and reporting on it in each of our annual Impact Reports.

B Corp – a reflection of who we are as a firm

Our B Corp accreditation reflects our commitment to responsible business practices, which is at the core of everything that we do.

Our purpose and values

Bellevue Law exists to provide a genuine alternative to traditional law firms, creating positive impact for our team, our clients and wider society and the environment.

Our values of quality, ethics, culture, pragmatism and growth and reward are integrated into every aspect of our operations. We’re committed to ensuring we have a strong culture of inclusivity, diversity, and ethical practice in everything we do, aiming to reduce our environmental impact and support social causes as well as provide the very best legal service to clients.

Our people commitment

We work hard to attract, retain and empower excellent lawyers who share our values by providing them with high quality work, flexibility and a healthy work-life balance, a supportive and friendly culture and the opportunity to make a good living. In turn our team provide an exceptional, personalised service to our clients while also achieving rewarding careers.

Our client commitment

Our clients are a natural and important part of the communities we support. We don’t simply view them as businesses and individuals to whom we deliver services, but as partners in creating a positive impact in a wide range of ways.

Our approach is to offer clients not only technically excellent legal advice, but also pragmatic and human support, and fees which represent good value.

We credit this approach with leading to high levels of client satisfaction: every year since our first annual client survey in 2017, our clients have rated us over 9/10, on average, when asked how likely they are to recommend us to a friend or colleague. In 2024 clients gave us an average rating of 9.4/10 and our Net Promoter Score (a well-recognised measure of client satisfaction) was 94/100.

Our community commitment

Bellevue Law is also dedicated to being a responsible business within the many communities in which we work.

This includes our longstanding commitment to pro bono work – providing free legal advice “for the public good” - as well as providing thought leadership of questions of business and workplace purpose, ethics and culture.

We also commit to contributing 2% of pre-tax profit to good causes with a focus on charities local to our Wandsworth office and those who champion the rights of women and girls vulnerable to discrimination or harassment. For many years we have supported the Wandsworth Home-Start Christmas Carol Service and donated £10 to Trinity Hospice for each client who completes our annual survey.

B Corp – another major milestone on a journey begun in 2014

Bellevue Law was founded in 2014 to offer clients City-quality legal advice, cost-effectively and with a personal touch, and lawyers completely agile and flexible working as an alternative to the legal profession’s traditional focus on long hours and billing.

Since then, we have remained committed to doing business fairly, and ethical practices remain at the heart of our legal practice.

The firm has a demonstrable track record of ethical business prior to its B Corp accreditation:

The Law Firm Maturity Index

In 2023, we took part in a trial of The Law Firm Maturity Index (LFMI), powered by OMINDEX®, a unique diagnostic tool which assesses a law firm’s “organisational maturity”.

The index evaluates how well a firm reconciles corporate responsibility with financial performance and maximises value from its people, based on “Organisation Health Indicators” such as purpose, human value, values and principles, learning agility, and trust and collaboration.

Bellevue Law’s LFMI ranking was ‘Band ‘A’, indicating that we are an extremely mature and responsible business. We were recognised for our exemplary management standards, with financial performance not compromising people or the environment and key strengths including culture, values and principles, trust and our approach to gender equality and diversity, and our team’s wellbeing and engagement were found to be strong and central to our success.

The Good Business Charter

In 2020, Bellevue Law became the first law firm to be accredited by the Good Business Charter, a simple accreditation recognising responsible business practices and open to UK organisations of all sizes. Other members include Richer Sounds, Deloitte, London City Airport, Capita and Brompton Bicycles.

In order to be accredited, firms must be compliant in ten key areas, including fair pay and working conditions, responsible relationships with clients and suppliers, fair and transparent tax practices, environmental sustainability and ethical sourcing.

Read our B Corp Impact Report 2024

Impact Report

Our Impact Report provides more details on our journey to date, as well as our targets and plans moving forward.

Emissions Summary

We work with independent consultancy Zevero to measure and reduce our environmental impact.

Our latest greenhouse gas emissions summary details our emissions for FY 2022-23 and future reduction targets.

Read our Emissions Summary report FY2022-23

If you’d like to speak to us about our ethical commitments, pro bono or community activities, please do not hesitate to contact
Florence Brocklesby.

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