Ethics, professionalism and commitment to people
Our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) project is closely linked to our values of equality and justice, and is based on the unwavering commitment of each one of the members of the Firm to serve the community at large in order to improve social inequality in our society.
Through our CSR project, and in particular through Pro Bono, we want to help, directly or indirectly, the most underserved members of society, with some very clear objectives in mind. From our perspective we want to (i) be able to fulfil our ethical duty to serve society, and (ii) allow the lawyers to fulfil their solidarity commitment. One of our objectives is to help create a fair and equitable legal system. In our opinion, it is a part of the moral and ethical duty of being a lawyer.
In order to centralise and manage this work, we have set up a Pro Bono Committee to analyse the requests for work in detail. The Committee then assigns these projects to leaders—lawyers with certain expertise and specific skills appropriate for each project. Our social actions are directed at many sectors, but the most important ones are childhood, immigration, and the disabled/critical illnesses.
Although we have a list of priority communities, whenever we are offered a new activity, the Pro Bono Committee analyzes it in order to increase the range of the sectors we can help.
As lawyers, our principal activity is Pro Bono legal services because this is what differentiates us from other groups and this is where we believe we can contribute the most. This activity is aimed at collaborations of social interest through our professional services, by means of our ethical obligation to help others, offering information and legal advice in the service of the community, voluntarily and free of charge.
We have the support of various foundations whose goal is to promote business activities of strategic nature that contribute to the improvement of society.