Responsible Business

Pinsent Masons has many ‘neighbours’, both on our doorstep and further afield. We believe it’s our responsibility to leave those neighbourhoods in better shape than we find them, and to behave responsibly to our ‘neighbours’, who include our people, our clients, our local communities and the wider global community.

We named our corporate responsibility (CR) programme ‘Starfish’, after we were inspired by the writings of renowned anthropologist, Loren Eiseley:

“A young child's route to school took him along a beach. Each day the child would pick up starfish that had been washed up on the shore and toss them back into the ocean. One day, a neighbour asked the child, "Why do you bother tossing the starfish back? There are so many – surely it doesn't matter?" The child looked at the starfish in his hand and said, "It matters to this one." And he threw it back into the ocean.


Please see the links below to discover more about what Starfish is all about:

Taking the CR pledge
Partnering with local communities
Our themes: “Deploying Resources Responsibly” … and “Inspiring Young Lives”
Our work with SOS Children’s Villages