Overview
COMMUNITY
We underpin our ability to deliver excellent client service and create a working environment where talented people can succeed. We are ambitious for our clients and ourselves but we understand the importance of making a positive impact on the community at large.
These Principles guide us in our endeavor to build Bankim Mehta & Associates in parlance with global standards and mark our existence into a major force in the global legal marketplace. They are embedded into the operations of our business as well as our underlying culture.
ENVIRONMENT
We believe and practice within our firm by buying energy from renewable sources where available, reducing paper consumption and recycling of general waste and of office paper waste.
CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY
Bankim Mehta & Associates is striving hard for its overarching vision is to become both the leader of the emerging elite group of international legal service provider and to be regarded as one of the world's leading professional services organisations. But to achieve these twin ambitions means tackling a third : to be the legal firm whose corporate responsibility (CR) activities are most closely aligned with the way it does business.
This is not just about doing the right thing, though that is important to us, too.
The advantages this brings are clear. We will be able to attract and retain the best people. We will all develop as individuals through expanding our horizons beyond our commercial role. We will foster even closer and more trusting relationships with our clients – especially when we undertake joint CR activities. And we can make a real difference to the lives of people less fortunate than ourselves.
Our CR strategy is underpinned by our Principles and has three main strands – people, community and the environment. Our people strategy looks inwardly at our responsibilities to our employees, particularly with regard to the critical themes of development and diversity.
Our community strategy embraces not only our charitable and volunteering initiatives but also our pro bono activity. Three themes lie at its heart - increasing access to justice, access to finance and access to education.
OUR PRINCIPLES
Our Principles are a fundamental part of who we are: they reflect the principles by which we conduct ourselves, shaping what we do and how we do it. They are also real and reflect the ethos of our firm:
- Exceeding clients expectations
- We are committed to satisfy our clients through a deep understanding of their needs, their businesses, and their industries, and by providing excellent, responsive, innovative services and commercially focused legal advice of the highest quality that will consistently exceed their expectations and achieve their goals.
- Local excellence, global standards
- We ensure we can benefit our clients by combining technical excellence in our work with a business-oriented approach, the highest level of integrity, and focus on solutions and by maintaining the depth, quality and scale of resources necessary to meet our clients needs whenever and wherever they arise. An ambition for success We put intense effort into our work and actively look for ways to deliver the best results for our clients and so for our firm. Our aim is to be regarded as one of the world’s leading professional services organisations and to be at the top of the profession in each market where we practice.
- Investing in Talent
- To deliver on our commitment to our clients, we recruit and develop the best people. We believe that, by delivering great client service, we will be involved in the most interesting and challenging client work and, as a result, achieve the reputation and the high levels of profitability which are essential to attracting and retaining the best people.
- Thinking Ahead
- To be at the forefront of the legal profession requires foresight, a desire to share ideas and a willingness to have a voice on issues of importance. We have the confidence to challenge existing thinking and to push boundaries.
- Strength Through Diversity
- We are proud of our firm and value the diversity of the people and cultures within it. In our firm people succeed according to their merits.