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AusLSA Member Reporting Principles

AusLSA’s member reporting framework is aligned with widely recognised Australian and international sustainability standards, ensuring a consistent and credible approach to measuring and managing ESG performance across the legal sector.

Reporting Principles

Materiality

Focusing on issues most relevant to stakeholders.

Completeness

Ensuring comprehensive and accurate reporting boundaries.

Responsiveness

Highlighting sector-wide issues while recognising firm-level approaches.

Purpose & Value

Benchmark

Compare performance against peers and sector-wide trends.

Demonstrate accountability

Provide transparency to clients, staff, and stakeholders.

Track progress

Measure outcomes across environmental, social, and governance areas.

Leverage insights

Build resilience and deliver broader social and environmental value.

Acknowledgements

AusLSA’s reporting framework has been developed and refined over many years, with the support of organisations that provide expertise across key areas of sustainability. Their guidance has helped ensure that the framework reflects the issues most material to Australian law firms.

We gratefully acknowledge the ongoing contributions of:

INFORMED 365 – reporting tool and analytics

Australian Pro Bono Centre – legal pro bono programs

Workplace Gender Equality Agency – gender equality and flexible working

Workplace Giving Australia – charitable giving and non-legal volunteering

Pride in Diversity – LGBTQI+ inclusion

Reconciliation Australia – First Nations reconciliation

Minds Count Foundation – psychological wellbeing

Better Sydney – corporate governance and modern slavery

Foresight Consulting Group – climate action and emissions measurement

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