Social responsibility
We want to give something back – to society and to our employees.
Our ambitions are to contribute to society by:
- promoting diversity through targeted recruitment and training programmes;
- creating a performance-based and appreciative work culture in order to ensure our sustained commercial success; and
- taking on social responsibility in the community by carrying out pro-bono work and supporting social projects.
Valuing differences and individuality is part of our cultural DNA. It is central to our strategy. This is based on diversity management motives and explicitly aims to achieve equity, i.e. real equality regardless of age, ethnic origin and nationality, gender and gender identity, physical and mental abilities, religion and beliefs, sexual orientation and social background.
Diversity
Diversity defines us and makes us successful: our teams are international, interdisciplinary and interculturally competent. Their wealth of personalities and perspectives is valuable in and of itself. At the same time, their ability to find innovative and creative solutions provides added value for our clients.
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We live diversity and
- drive relevant issues with a permanent diversity committee;
- maintain a firm-wide diversity network;
- signed the Charter of Diversity in 2012 and celebrate German Diversity Day every year;
- are involved in the following initiatives and networks:
- International Bar Association LGBTQI+ Law Committee
- Prout Employer Partner Programme and advisory committee of the PROUT AT WORK Foundation
- RAHM Global LGBT & Leadership Community
- Initiative Women into Leadership e.V.
- Network of Multicultural Lawyers e.V.;
- participate in the PANDA Women Leadership Network and LGBTQI+ job and career fairs (including Sticks & Stones) and hold our own diversity career events;
- participate in the “Gesicht zeigen” list run by the legal LGBTQI+ career network ALICE;
- advise the Charter of Diversity e.V., PROUT AT WORK Foundation, National Paralympic Committee Germany and Initiative Women into Leadership, alongside many other advisors, on a pro bono basis;
- award diversity scholarships to law students who engage in social, political or volunteer work, come from a disadvantaged background and/or whose parents do not have a higher education; and
- are sponsors of the Diversity Student Group at Bucerius Law School.
Her
The Her initiative helps us create an environment where women in leadership roles are welcome and women’s careers are specifically promoted. The programme is designed to actively shape equal opportunities and to realise women’s inherent right to participate equally in all aspects of life – in our firm, the legal profession and beyond.
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Her stands for modern empowerment and provides our lawyers with tailored support, whatever their gender:
- Her Rise is part of our unique education, training and professional development programme which supports our female advisors on their career paths, featuring a range of topics such as self-marketing. Her Rise events are usually jointly organised by female partners.
- Her Network is our initiative by female lawyers for female lawyers and provides a platform for regular communication and cross-firm networking, for example in connection with guided tours, lunches or presentations.
- Her Executive Circle brings our female lawyers into contact with female executives from business, academia and the public sector and aims to promote the advancement of women in leadership positions. Apart from presentations on specialist topics, panel discussions and virtual lunch sessions, we also come together regularly for face-to-face meetings.
- Her Success, our mentoring scheme for female lawyers, supports them on their individual career paths. All female senior associates are accompanied by a tandem consisting of experienced female partners as mentors alongside a counsel or associated partner as a “buddy”. This combination ensures that all relevant topics can be addressed. Our female associated partners receive personal career development assistance from a mentor who is a member of the partnership.
Thrive
Our job is challenging and demanding. With the Thrive programme, we take care of everyone’s physical and mental well-being, the sustainable maintenance and improvement of our performance and that we master our professional challenges with joy, energy and success, regardless of our individual personality style.
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With our Thrive initiative, we are establishing our firm-wide health culture in a three-stage process:
- Inform
We impart relevant knowledge on the topics of healthy performance and physical and mental health in training courses and seminars. - Empower
We enable employees to develop their own specific strategies and methods in workshops and coaching sessions. - Implement
Together, we use this knowledge and these tools in everyday life to increase our well-being along the path of mindfulness and self-care. We manage our strength sustainably and maintain our mental and physical health over the long term.
Noerr KinderCamp
Children are the future. Yet many face that future with less than favourable prospects. We’re doing something about this by offering socially disadvantaged children from Germany, Austria and Romania the opportunity to enjoy carefree holidays.
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Our Noerr KinderCamp has been providing a holiday camp for children and young people since 2011. Located in Thalgau on Lake Fuschl, Austria, non-profit organisations from Germany, Austria and Romania send children there for one-week holidays each year. The holiday camp came to life on a Saturday at the end of April 2011 when around 450 advisors grabbed their saws, hammers and brushes to lay the colourful groundwork. Our greatest wish is that the children and young people participating will take the rewarding experiences (and educational guidance) from the KinderCamp with them as a positive force in their future lives.
Do you want to support the camp?
The purpose of Noerr KinderCamp e. V. is to help disadvantaged children and young people by establishing and running a holiday camp in which the children and young people are supervised and cared for by trained professionals. Sponsors are welcome to donate any amount. Noerr KinderCamp e. V. is a registered charity and can issue its sponsors a receipt for donations. Noerr Partnerschaftsgesellschaft mbB performs all administrative tasks and bears the costs so that the entire amount of the donors’/sponsors’ contributions directly benefits the children and young people. We would be pleased to name you as a sponsor of the KinderCamp, at the camp itself and at events.
Contact
Tobias Bürgers Alexander Ritvay
tobias.buergers@noerr.com alexander.ritvay@noerr.com
T +49 89 28628149
Account for donations
Noerr KinderCamp e.V.
Deutsche Bank AG
IBAN DE 49 7007 0024 0030 6258 00
BIC DEUTDEDBMUC
Pro bono
As lawyers, our sense of justice isn’t just limited to the law. We also have an affinity to good causes and human rights. This is why we make our expertise available to those who need it most:
Lex Mundi Pro Bono Foundation
Pro Bono Deutschland e.V.
Right Livelihood
National Paralympic Committee Germany
GERMANTECH
We see ourselves as “advocates of progress”. With this in mind, we work to strengthen Germany as a location for technology and innovation. Together with selected partners from industry and science, we created GERMANTECH, a platform for innovation and entrepreneurship that connects start-ups from all over the world to universities, incubators, corporations and capital. It enables new ideas, technologies and business models to achieve successful breakthroughs. We have been supporting GERMANTECH with our know-how and venture capital expertise since 2015.
