After 30 years as a successful insolvency lawyer, specialising in investigative work, civil fraud, and related regulatory action, Sally was appointed as our first Partner Lead for Responsible Business in 2024.
Sally has been active in the firm's responsible business agenda for many years, as trustee and chair of our Charitable Foundation, Community Engagement Lead, ally to our employee networks, Disability and Neurodiversity Champion, Menopause Champion, Mental Health First Aider, and more recently trained as a Grief First Aider. In her new role, Sally's focus is exclusively on responsible business.
Sally has been a catalyst for positive change and brings her passion, expertise and extensive knowledge of the business to the strategic alignment of the environmental, social, and governance strands of our responsible business agenda. She works closely with the Board and leadership teams, as well as the wider business, driving delivery of our core objective to lead the way on responsible business and build an ever more sustainable, inclusive and progressive business. Sally also chairs our Responsible Business Steering Group.
External recognition of our responsible business work includes:
- Great Place to Work accreditation, demonstrating a strong workplace culture
- EcoVadis gold medal, ranking us in the top 3% of companies reporting globally assessed against ethics, labour and human rights, the environment and sustainable procurement
- Mansfield UK re-accreditation, for our inclusive recruitment and promotions practices
- Stonewall 'Leading Employer' status under their new Proud Employers Scheme, for our work around LGBTQ+ inclusion.
- Disability Confident Leader accreditation, the highest tier of the UK government's voluntary scheme which recognises employers who champion disability inclusion
Our work has been recognised in the following awards:
- Legal 500 UK ESG Awards 2026 – winners in 2 categories: ESG Private Practice Champion of the Year: Sally Dallow and DE&I Rising Star of the Year: Nazmin Akthar
- Legal 500 UK ESG Awards 2026 – finalists in 5 other categories: Best Law Firm Advisory Team: Sustainable Finance; ESG Law Firm Initiative of the Year (social value reporting); DE&I Champion: Jane Freeman (wellbeing); DE&I Law Firm Initiative (wellbeing working practices); Best Internal Support Network of the year (Talk Club / men's wellbeing group)
- Women & Diversity in Law Awards 2026 – finalists in two categories: Law Firm of the Year and Law Firm Leader of the Year: Sally Dallow
- Northern Power Women Awards 2026 - finalists in two categories: Large Organisation and Agent of Change: Nazmin Akthar
- LexisNexis Legal Awards 2026 – finalist in the Diversity and Inclusion category
