Linklaters becomes debut recipient of new diversity and inclusion award
Linklaters has become the first organisation to achieve the new UK National Equality Standard (NES), an accreditation for diversity and inclusion developed by EY and the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
September 08, 2014 at 08:39 AM
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Linklaters has become the first organisation to achieve the new UK National Equality Standard (NES), an accreditation for diversity and inclusion developed by EY and the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
The standard – which was developed alongside 18 leading businesses such as Sainsbury's, Vodafone and Microsoft – is based on an assessment across seven different areas and 70 different competencies.
Linklaters received its comprehensive report on the outcome of this assessment on Thursday, according to Euan Clarke, diversity and inclusion partner for the firm's London office. The firm will now review which suggestions to prioritise and act on.
"The main reason we did this wasn't for the accreditation," said Clarke. "We didn't think 'wouldn't it be nice to get an award'. It was learning something about ourselves, to test ourselves, not just what we do well, but equally the things you do less well and getting feedback on that.
"You have got to be committed to doing something with the feedback you're getting. We didn't tick every box; that's not what this is about. We didn't get a nice little green circle against every single item. Therefore there are areas for us to work on and we are going to do that."
The firm spent a year putting in place practices to meet the standards of the award, according to Simon Davies, firmwide managing partner (pictured).
"This matters a lot to us," Davies said on receiving the award at a presentation event in London this morning. "This was not an easy accrediation to receive, but we are feeling the benefits of it in our business today."
The NES was launched last year, and now has around 200 companies looking to complete the assessment.
At its annual partner conference in Barcelona in April, Linklaters adopted gender diversity targets of 30% female membership of its executive committee and international board by 2018, double the current female representation on the board.
According to Linklaters' latest diversity statistics, however, only 7% of the firm's EMEA partners outside London are female.
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