How were the individual commitments in the Statement of Principles chosen as the guiding principles for the Law Firm Leadership Circle?
The Statement of Principles, developed by the CBF’s Managing Partners Advisory Committee, recognize that fulfilling our special professional responsibility to ensure equal access to our justice system requires contributions of time and money as well as a strategic use of the influence we have in our community as lawyers and law firms. We believe this may be the first time that a truly comprehensive statement of principles has been developed to recognize the unique role that law firms play in ensuring access to justice. However, each of the individual commitments in the Statement of Principles embodies best practices on these issues that previously have been acknowledged either in Chicago or other parts of the country.
