Environmental, Social and Governance at DTM Legal
DTM Legal is founded on three main principles: Trusted Partner, Legal Excellence and Outstanding Service. These values echo throughout the company through our care and service to our clients, through our people and through our commitment and support to the wider community.
We are passionate about the work we do and we value the people we work with. As trusted legal advisors, we believe in acting responsibly toward our clients, and ensuring we have a positive impact on our community. ESG is integral to our purpose and values, guiding how we build sustainable practices, foster inclusivity, and positively impact the world around us.
Our Purpose
Our purpose is founded on three core principles: being a Trusted Partner, delivering Legal Excellence, and providing Outstanding Service. These values drive us to lead with integrity, support our community, and contribute to a sustainable future for both people and the planet. We build long term relationships with our clients and provide long term legal solutions to ensure their future. Our ESG policy encompasses various aspects of our business operations, guided by our core values. While the specifics of ESG are broad, DTM Legal’s policy focuses on key pillars of our activities, ensuring we continuously aim for a positive community impact and responsible growth.
Our Goals
DTM Legal is committed to making ESG the heart of its business and its decisions. We are continually looking to develop and improve our ESG commitment to help improve the world around us, our communities and our people.
We want to achieve this by the following goals:
- DTM Legal to be a firm that is known to make a difference to its people, its clients, its communities and beyond.
- To establish a baseline carbon footprint to allow us to track our carbon usage and assess what steps we can take to reduce our carbon footprint.
- Once a baseline carbon footprint has been established, agree a carbon reduction target for 5 years.
- Set up an internal ESG Committee with representatives across the firm to help develop and deliver DTM Legals ESG initiatives.
- Improve ways to engage and educate our people in DTM Legal’s ESG aims and initiatives to encourage participation bringing the DTM Legal’s team together.
- Continue to engage with our business and local communities to improve and support those communities in sustainability and in particular encouraging pathways into the legal profession.
Our Priorities and ESG Report Highlights
- Carbon Tracking: Collaborating with Carbon Happy World to audit, track, and reduce our emissions.
- Responsible Waste Management: Partnering with a Carbon Net Zero waste management provider.
- Employee Education: Providing our staff with the training and resources to improve their understanding of and engagement with sustainability.
- Digital Solutions: Minimising carbon usage through digital transformation.
- Supplier Accountability: Working with our suppliers and partners develop a deeper understanding of their activities and ensure their practices align with our environmental goals.
- Our People: Investing in our staff training, development and sense of value.
- Charitable Giving: Raising funds for causes like North West Cancer Research and supporting community initiatives.
- Social Mobility and Education: Creating opportunities for students and underrepresented groups to explore careers in law.
- Business Education: Working alongside partners to provide thought leadership in ESG and sustainability across the region
- Employment & HR Leadership: Promoting health, inclusivity, and flexible working options.
- FinTech and Tech Start-Up Support: Actively pursuing opportunities to support FinTech and Tech Start-up growth.
- Community Support: Supporting our staff in seeking opportunities to give back to their communities.
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: Building an inclusive workplace that reflects the diversity of our clients and communities.
- Employee Wellbeing: Holding the Physical and Mental health of our staff in the highest esteem.
- Risk & Compliance: Upholding robust security standards and ethical practices.
- Sustainability Committee: Driving measurable progress on ESG initiatives through collaboration and innovation.