GOP Cares

Sustainability is becoming increasingly important for organisations across all industries which recognise that developing sustainability policies, focused on environmental safety, human capital and ethical business management, creates a long-term value beyond financial performance.

Based on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) criteria, our firm launched GOP Cares to draw together a series of actions into one single plan, covering environment (GOP Cares Green), people (GOP Cares Social), and governance (GOP Cares Work), with the goal of supporting the sustainable development of the firm itself.

GOP Cares Green

GOP Cares Green represents our commitment to environmental sustainability and includes all the initiatives implemented to limit our environmental impact through the efficient management of energy resources, consumption and technologies.

GOP Cares Social

We have always been committed to ensuring the health and well-being of our employees and their families. Through GOP Cares Social we have adopted welfare policies for which we have been repeatedly recognised as a “Welfare Champion”.

We implemented a policy that provides for the development of young talent and the regulation of career paths.
Our Firm's training program includes:

• ongoing training, based on the immediate and active involvement in transactions under the supervision of more experienced lawyers and development of communication skills through relationships with our clients, counterparties and colleagues;
• an internal Continuing Legal Education program launched in 2008 in which all lawyers, including trainees, are invited to join;
• Seminars and Retreats, meetings and internal seminars organised by our Firm in Italy and abroad;
• internship, an opportunity to gain professional experience at any of our offices, at other law firms, or in the legal department of some of our clients.

Pro-bono is important to us and we also directly support a number of non-profit organizations and proactively participate in charitable initiatives.

GOP's commitment to community involvement extends beyond the boundaries of our Firm, encouraging our people to actively support external organizations and causes that align with our values. 
By collaborating with associations and community-based initiatives, GOP aims to bolster the collective effort towards social progress and change.

GOP Cares Work

GOP Cares Work focuses on the fundamental issues regarding governance. It includes a series of initiatives in favour of diversity as well as the adoption of a code of ethics to guarantee high standards of conduct and inclusion policies.
Our ongoing commitment to inclusion and equality has also received a formal and important external recognition: the GOP has obtained the UNI 125:2022 gender equality certification, in line with the provisions of the NRP and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (Achieving Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment).

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Our Strategic Plan for Gender Equality includes, inter alia:

• Female Empowering initiatives;
• the organisation of events, training on gender bias, gender equality; 
• parenting policies.

We also adopt a suitable policy for the prevention of conflicts of interest, managed by a special Conflicts Committee. This Committee ensures the effective implementation of said policy and resolves doubtful cases, with due regard to the interest of our clients and professional ethics rules.

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We are the first Italian, full-service law firm to obtain the ISO27001 certificate (international information security standard) following our implementation of an Information Security Management System.

This system allows us to adopt a structured and highly disciplined approach to the management of the security of assets entrusted to it by clients, as well as to detect and prevent security breaches.