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We're partnering with Change Please, the social enterprise which gives homeless people what it describes as ‘a fresh shot at life’. The firm is providing pro bono legal advice on a major business expansion, and employability workshops for its ‘trainees’. Change Please has agreed a joint venture which will enable it to take over the AMT coffee chain, and thereby expand its high street presence to help more homeless people around the UK and increase revenue for its charitable foundation working to end homelessness. AMT sites are predominantly at hospitals, airports and train stations, making this perfect for Change Please because this is where homeless people also tend to spend time. The firm is also helping Change Please by running employability workshops on writing a CV and developing interviews skills, and culminating in a mock interview with volunteers from Royal Mail Group, a client partnering with DAC Beachcroft on this programme. Launched with one coffee cart in Covent Garden in 2015, Change Please is an award-winning social enterprise, supporting people out of homelessness.
We are pleased to announce that we have joined NOTICED, the UK’s first inter-firm diversity network aimed at promoting networking opportunities to integrate, celebrate and educate on diversity across the legal sector. DAC Beachcroft is one of 22 member firms which have joined forces to provide opportunities to individuals to interact on a social and professional level. The network also focuses on celebrating successes and bringing people together to discuss issues on culture and initiate action for change. “We are very pleased to join likeminded firms in promoting diversity across the legal sector,” said Sue Jenkins, DACB’s Talent Partner. “At DACB our purpose is to help our colleagues and our clients succeed, creating sustainable value. One of the ways we do this is by striving to eradicate obstacles, actual or perceived, that exist to equality of opportunity. To attract the best talent, foster innovation and meet the needs of our clients, we must seek out and include a plethora of voices, views and experiences. "
Our health sector team has won two HealthInvestor Awards for ‘Legal Advisor of the Year – Public’ and ‘Legal Advisor of the Year – Private’. The HealthInvestor Awards celebrate excellence and recognise innovation in the healthcare sector. Some of the comments from the judges include: “What DAC Beachcroft has done over the past year exhibits considerable public purpose, very strong external partnership and collaboration, commercial acumen, agile internal organisational culture, strong and imaginative strategising and notable public policy analysis. All highly commendable, indeed exemplary.” “DAC Beachcroft in partnership with its clients has enabled them to continue to manage their day-to-day operations during a time of significant crisis, and helped them meet their strategic needs with an eye on the future. While the environment for its clients has been challenging, it has taken opportunities to progress strategic change in its own organisation.” “The NHS nationally and through its various arms-length bodies has made extensive use of DAC Beachcroft, and has not been disappointed
DAC Beachcroft is pleased to announce its provisional, unaudited results for the year ended 30 April 2021, showing a seventh successive year of simultaneous revenue growth, increased profitability and improved liquidity, in the context of an unusual year impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. In headline terms: Total turnover was £275 million, an increase of £17 million (7%) on the previous year. Profit before tax grew to £67 million, an increase of £11 million (19%) on the firm's 2019/2020 results. Profit per member grew 19% to circa £700k. The firm again improved its net cash position, with £18 million net cash by year end (up from £8 million the previous year), having put in place a renewed and extended facility during the year.
DAC Beachcroft are delighted to announce it is providing Action Tutoring with a multi-year grant to fund a national expansion project. The grant will support a ‘northern-belt’ programme, which will expand the offer of tutoring support to more disadvantaged school pupils across the North of England. DACB first formed a corporate partnership with Action Tutoring two years ago, to provide English and Maths tutoring support to disadvantaged pupils in primary and secondary schools. When Action Tutoring was named as one of the government’s National Tutoring Programme Tuition Partners to help disadvantaged school children to continue learning during lockdown, DACB expanded its support and today has 100 Action Tutoring volunteers in Bristol, London, Birmingham and Newcastle. This constitutes five per cent of the charity’s UK-wide volunteering pool and makes DACB one of Action Tutoring’s largest corporate volunteering partners. In addition, the firm took proactive steps to donate laptops to schools for children without access to computers for home-learning.
DAC Beachcroft has won the Outstanding Training Innovation Award at Legal Week’s annual Legal Innovation Awards for its refreshed trainee development programme, developed in line with the principles of the O-Shaped Lawyer. The judges described the programme as an “imaginative and genuinely innovative leap in training”. Through the new training programme, DACB’s trainees will develop legal project management skills by participating in a ‘trainee shadow board’, work on real business development projects, attend tailored client relationship management modules, and learn more about how the firm’s business operates through a series of placements into Business Services teams. The programme, which went live in September 2020, also incorporates a data analytics diploma to aid commercial decision making, making DACB the first law firm to offer such a certification.
DAC Beachcroft has won the Outstanding Training Innovation Award at Legal Week’s annual Legal Innovation Awards for its refreshed trainee development programme, developed in line with the principles of the O-Shaped Lawyer. The judges described the programme as an “imaginative and genuinely innovative leap in training”. Through the new training programme, DACB’s trainees will develop legal project management skills by participating in a ‘trainee shadow board’, work on real business development projects, attend tailored client relationship management modules, and learn more about how the firm’s business operates through a series of placements into Business Services teams. The programme, which went live in September 2020, also incorporates a data analytics diploma to aid commercial decision making, making DACB the first law firm to offer such a certification.
DAC Beachcroft has won the Outstanding Training Innovation Award at Legal Week’s annual Legal Innovation Awards for its refreshed trainee development programme, developed in line with the principles of the O-Shaped Lawyer. The judges described the programme as an “imaginative and genuinely innovative leap in training”. Through the new training programme, DACB’s trainees will develop legal project management skills by participating in a ‘trainee shadow board’, work on real business development projects, attend tailored client relationship management modules, and learn more about how the firm’s business operates through a series of placements into Business Services teams. The programme, which went live in September 2020, also incorporates a data analytics diploma to aid commercial decision making, making DACB the first law firm to offer such a certification.
DAC Beachcroft has won the Outstanding Training Innovation Award at Legal Week’s annual Legal Innovation Awards for its refreshed trainee development programme, developed in line with the principles of the O-Shaped Lawyer. The judges described the programme as an “imaginative and genuinely innovative leap in training”. Through the new training programme, DACB’s trainees will develop legal project management skills by participating in a ‘trainee shadow board’, work on real business development projects, attend tailored client relationship management modules, and learn more about how the firm’s business operates through a series of placements into Business Services teams. The programme, which went live in September 2020, also incorporates a data analytics diploma to aid commercial decision making, making DACB the first law firm to offer such a certification.
We recently announced the introduction of Flex Forward to our colleagues. Following feedback from colleagues – gathered through surveys and crowdsourcing – and clients we've built upon our agile working approach. Flex Forward is about the when, where and how we work. We have introduced three types of dynamic, location-based working – office-focused, hybrid, and fully flex – to offer the maximum flexibility for each colleague’s role. In addition, the firm will introduce changes to working hours, enabling colleagues to ‘glide’ their time. Under this approach, core hours will be relaxed and colleagues will be able to flex their hours across the day. Flex Forward supports our employer brand that recognises we employ a diverse range of colleagues and we wanted to ensure that we reinforced this when reflecting on life after the pandemic. Colleagues really can have 'A Life That Works'.
