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Agenda
1. Welcome to new members
2. Update from Richard Martin on recent and upcoming MBC activity
3. Feedback on proposed changes to Charter as circulated previously
4. Feedback from signatories on the toolkit for introducing MBC to clients and other third parties – please do come ready to share any feedback from your experience of using these resources
5. Proposed survey of signatories
6. Personnel changes
7. Updates from members:
· Linklaters
· BCLPfrom 11.40
8. AOB
1. Welcome to new members
Crowe UAE – first accountancy firm - Markus Susilo / Sylvia Reichegger –
Sharratts– Jane Sewell
Lindsays– Iona Kelly
Burges Salmon – Victoria Goldsworthy
Liederkerke Wolt - Marie Hayvaert / Vincent Busschaert
Registry Trust – Chris Dick
Siemens Energy – Natacha Brunet
Law Offices of Panag and Babu - Sherbir Panag / Gurbani Kaur
Inventum Group - Jo Stanley / Russell Thompson
Dechert –Daniel Goldsmith
2. Update from Richard Martin on recent and upcoming MBC activity
Refresh of welcome pack
Weekly briefing calls
Event with Scots Government legal service arranged through Morton Fraser
Series of vlogs to be released by Scots Law society in run up to an event to be held with them in April
Connecting up folk in Australia –as ever if you want to connect up other offices with local MBC contacts let me know and we can facilitate that
Strategic planning with trustees
Event coming up with the Global committee of the New York State Bar Association – 15February 2pm London time
Organisation of the ideas from signatory updates over the last years with Alana from HFW
FT articles in the new year which we circulated
3. Feedback on proposed changes to Charter as circulated previously
A point has been made re it not always being possible or preferable for people to join meetings virtually – eg if they do not have remote access or it is a meeting that requires in person attendance – add “Where appropriate” at start
Other comments?
What next?
4. Feedback from signatories on the toolkit for introducing MBC to clients and other third parties – please do come ready to share any feedback from your experience of using these resources
Problems with accessing?
Comments re usefulness?
Any other feedback?
5. Proposed survey of signatories
Planned for March/April to:
· Get a sense of how you are doing with embedding MBC
· Gain feedback on current community activity and how useful it is to you
· Gather some impact data where we can
· Gain feedback on proposed priorities and activity going forward
6. Personnel changes
Lisa, Katie and me
7. Updates from members:
• Linklaters - Svetlana Gurevich
• BCLP – Polly James from 11.40
These are really useful for members. We’ve been having to do a lot of chasing to get people todo updates – please do feel free to volunteer and please to try to say yes whenyou are asked
8. AOB
Kate Hammerton from Shoosmiths has asked in her annual evaluation (brownie points for doing this)
We are aware some of the early corporate signatories of the MBC introducing the Charter commitments initially at a team / Divisional level. We would be interested to know if / how they have progressed from this to a firmwide level.