B Impact Report

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Atticus Lawyers Pty Ltd

Legal Services, including commercial law for start ups and SMEs, and litigation.
Certified Since: June, 2017
Location: South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Sector: Service with Minor Environmental Footprint

Overall B Impact Scoreinfo_outline

81.1

The B Impact Scores are being compared against all businesses that have completed the B Impact Assessment

www.atticus.com.au

Atticus is a socially aware and purpose driven commercial law firm offering services in business and commercial law and litigation. They believe in the power of business, the law and the legal system to change people's lives for the better.

Our values naturally align with the B Corp purpose, so it was a no brainer for us to join the movement and connect up with other like minded businesses. We believe very strongly that "for profit" organisations have the capacity and a responsibility to support our communities and to be actively engaged in leadership and innovation.

As a profession, lawyers get a bad rap. Have you heard the one about the lawyer who woke up from surgery and the curtains in the operating theatre were drawn? The nurse told him softly that the building across the street was on fire, and they didn't want him to wake up and think he'd died.

We've made it our mission to change that stereotype.

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info_outlineOverall B Impact Score

To certify as a B Corp, a company must achieve a minimum verified score of 80 points on the B Impact Assessment. The B Impact Assessment asks questions about how the day-to-day operations of a company create positive impact for the company’s workers, community, and environment. Additionally, companies can earn further points if their overall business model can be shown to create positive social and environmental impact as well, qualifying the company for specific Impact Business Model points.

Scores for Certified B Corporations are verified by the non-profit B Lab.

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The questions in the B Impact Assessment are organized into five Impact Areas: Governance, Workers, Community, Environment, and Customers. Click into a Impact Area to see topics covered in each. Topics in blue are Impact Business Models associated with that Impact Area where the company has earned additional credit. Due to rounding, displayed totals may not add up exactly.

The B Impact Assessment is customized to a company's size, sector, and geographic market.  However, within those parameters, there are still questions included in the B Impact Assessment that might not be relevant to a particular company. In cases where a question is not applicable, the potential points available for that question are instead earned based on the performance of the company on the other topics relevant to the stakeholder and summed up as "N/A points." Likewise, a score of N/A for Workers means that the company is a sole proprietor or partnership with no full-time staff, and a score of 0 or N/A for Customers means that the company does not have a specific Customer-focused Impact Business Model.

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Each year, B Lab releases lists honoring the top-performing Certified B Corps in each Impact Area and overall, broken down by size, on the annual Best for the World lists.

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B Lab may determine that a company should make additional material beyond their B Impact Report transparent in order for the public to be able to evaluate the company’s overall impact. This additional transparency may cover participation in a controversial industry, information shared on the company’s Disclosure Questionnaire, or simply a company’s relationship to a larger complex entity. Public companies and wholly-owned subsidiaries are required to make their full B Impact Assessments transparent to achieve B Corp Certification.