Dentons

At Dentons, inclusion and diversity is not just a core value but an integral part of our strategy. In today’s globalised world which is changing faster than ever before, we understand the critical role inclusive and diverse teams play in helping us make better decisions, innovate faster and deliver relevant and more sophisticated solutions to you.

Focus on Allyship

In further recognition of the shared imperative and important role to be played by those in the majority group where they live and work and the need to take active steps to include those from underrepresented groups who may feel excluded or isolated, we made 2020 Dentons’ Year of the Ally and have maintained a Focus on Allyship as a core part of our inclusion, diversity and equity strategy into 2021-22 and beyond.

We actively encourage allyship across the Firm to empower people to act together to create change through:

• creating and delivering relevant training webinars with supporting materials.
• conceptualizing and promoting interactive internal campaigns built around allyship themes
• facilitating cross-region resource-sharing.

Women’s Advancement / Dentons Women

Dentons has made a commitment and set as its objective to ensure that the Firm is a place where all women, regardless of role or position: are full and equal participants in the life and business of the Firm; are empowered to freely pursue their career ambitions and realize their full potential at the Firm; and play an integral role and have an equitable part in building and benefitting from relationships with our clients.

The Dentons Women chapter in Singapore shares the network’s mission to foster an environment that attracts, develops and inspires women business leaders and to build networks with our clients and the communities in which we work. We are proud of the many women leaders in our firm, past and present, and have drawn on their experiences to inspire and support the female talent we have.

Aside from tea sessions and webinars to provide a platform for our ladies to connect and learn from one another, we also have a mentorship programme to support our young female lawyers as they embark on their legal careers.

Community Collaboration

As part of our 160th anniversary in 2021, we raised more than $120,000 for the Singapore Association of Women Lawyers Scholarship Fund. In 2022, we launched a philanthropy and non-profit practice to help clients with charitable intentions to achieve their objectives. We also demonstrate our commitment to education by hosting an annual thought leadership event, the Dentons Rodyk Dialogue, which is held in partnership with Singapore Management University (SMU) and brings together thought leaders to share ideas and views affecting Asia’s legal, business, cultural and economic landscape.

The Big Inclusion Project

To enable our colleagues to take ownership of the equity, inclusion and diversity agenda and to make change where needed, in 2019-20 we strengthened our direct engagement of our people in driving us forward with our Big Inclusion Project, designed to accelerate the inclusion agenda and leverage the power of our people to build relevant inclusion and diversity solutions at Dentons.