{"id":231004,"date":"2025-10-07T13:47:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T13:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/?page_id=231004"},"modified":"2026-04-17T15:46:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T15:46:05","slug":"esg","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/esg-awards\/esg\/","title":{"rendered":"ESG Categories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ESG: Rising Star<\/strong><br \/>\nThis category will acknowledge a truly standout rising star for their contribution to one or more aspect of ESG, covering private practice, in-house and the Bar. Submissions are welcomed for this category; nominees may also be drawn from entrants to other categories.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jerseyfinance.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-261514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.legal500.com\/events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/04\/Jersey_Finance_Logo_CMYK_COLOUR-2025-300x44.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"36\" srcset=\"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/04\/Jersey_Finance_Logo_CMYK_COLOUR-2025-300x44.png 300w, https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/04\/Jersey_Finance_Logo_CMYK_COLOUR-2025-768x113.png 768w, https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/04\/Jersey_Finance_Logo_CMYK_COLOUR-2025.png 867w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>ESG Champion (Private Practice)<\/strong><br \/>\nThis category will acknowledge a truly standout private practice individual for their contribution to ESG. Submissions are welcomed for this category; nominees may also be drawn from entrants to other categories.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ESG Champion (In-house)<\/strong><br \/>\nThis category will acknowledge a truly standout in-house individual for their contribution to ESG. Submissions are welcomed for this category; nominees may also be drawn from entrants to other categories.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ESG Champion (The Bar) <\/strong><br \/>\nThis category will acknowledge a truly standout individual at the Bar for their contribution to ESG. Submissions are welcomed for this category; nominees may also be drawn from entrants to other categories.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ESG: Law Firm Initiative<\/strong><br \/>\nThis award will go to the best overall ESG\u202finitiative by a law firm. Submissions are welcomed for this category; nominees may also be drawn from entrants to other categories.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ESG: In-house Initiative of the Year<\/strong><br \/>\nThis award will go to the best overall ESG initiative by an in-house legal team. Submissions are welcomed for this category; nominees may also be drawn from entrants to other categories.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ESG: Bar Initiative of the Year<\/strong><br \/>\nThis award will go to the best overall ESG initiative at the Bar. Submissions are welcomed for this category; nominees may also be drawn from entrants to other categories.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pro bono Initiative of the Year<\/strong><br \/>\nThis award is open to single or multi-organisation teams for involvement and leadership of an outstanding pro bono project over the last year, chosen from across private practice, in-house and the Bar.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mental health &amp; Wellbeing Initiative<\/strong><br \/>\nThis award is open to the Bar, law firms and in-house legal teams. It will go to the best initiative aimed at boosting mental health and well being in the organisation or across a group of organisations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ESG Client Partner of the Year<br \/>\n<\/strong>This category recognises the individual lawyer who received the strongest client endorsements in The Legal 500\u2019s ESG research during 2025. It is not open to submissions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ESG Client Service Firm of the Year<br \/>\n<\/strong>This category recognises the law firm ESG practice that received the highest client service scores in The Legal 500\u2019s research during 2025. It is not open to submissions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESG: Rising Star This category will acknowledge a truly standout rising star for their contribution to one or more aspect of ESG, covering private practice, in-house and the Bar. Submissions are welcomed for this category; nominees may also be drawn from entrants to other categories. Sponsored by: ESG Champion (Private Practice) This category will acknowledge &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/esg-awards\/esg\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ESG Categories&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"parent":121382,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-231004","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/231004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/231004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261530,"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/231004\/revisions\/261530"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/121382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}