Commitments and CSR

A partnership for children undergoing surgery

Cornet Vincent Ségurel has been supporting the P’tits Doudous association since November 2023. The association supports children and parents throughout the operation process, and strives to improve the experience of the operation as much as possible.

Today, the association has over 120 local associations in France, Belgium and Canada, and more than 1,500 health-care professionals committed to supporting more than 120,000 children operated on every year.

Improving the well-being of children undergoing surgery and supporting their parents

For children
The association works to reduce the anxiety of children undergoing surgery, minimizes premedication and facilitates the return home thanks to its actions (doudou, interactive game on tablet…). 

For parents
Thanks to actions taken to reduce children’s stress, parents are more relaxed. An application has also been set up to notify parents of the various stages of childcare.

For sustainable development
The association is also financed through sustainable development. In the early years, Les P’tits Doudous financed its activities through the sale of certain hospital waste, which was not always recycled.

Green IT: all our office data is stored in “green” data centers providing a low PUE (energy efficiency ratio). The firm’s website has also been hosted on carbon-neutral servers since 2020.
 

Pro Bono work in support of The Arch: the firm provided sponsorship and pro bono support from 2019 to 2023 to The Arch, the organizer of a European event aimed at accelerating the energy transition around five themes: health and food, mobility, housing and cities, energy, industry and digital.
 

Carbon audit: we have begun a carbon audit, which should be completed in 2024, in order to plan the implementation of corrective actions.
 

Building energy performance: we are committed to optimizing the energy performance of our offices wherever possible. Our new offices in Rennes have been awarded the HQE Bâtiment Durable label, with energy consumption 40% below the required threshold.

Limiting unnecessary travel: the firm uses remote meetings, conferences and training whenever appropriate. To this end, each office is equipped with one or more videoconference rooms, and each employee has a Teams license.

Wherever possible, we also give priority to intercity rail travel when necessary.

We also encourage our teams to come to the office by bike, with bike parking facilities set up in our offices whenever possible.

Hiring local suppliers
Whenever possible, we strive to use local service providers and choose responsible products.

Dematerialization of documents
The firm has implemented a policy of dematerializing documents in order to reduce paper consumption.

This policy has resulted in the use of paperless solutions for our practice, the choice of online subscriptions to documentation databases rather than paper versions, and the digitization of our onboarding process for new team members.

Following the implementation of these actions, the firm reported a 30% drop in paper consumption.

Reducing consumption of plastic containers: to put an end to the use of plastic bottles, the firm installed water fountains and distributed water bottles to all lawyers and employees. Following the implementation of this action, the firm recorded a 47% drop in plastic bottle consumption.

Waste sorting and recovery: a waste sorting and recovery policy is implemented in our offices whenever the configuration of the premises allows. We rely on external service providers to set up collection points (cardboard, paper, bio-waste, glass, ink cartridges, light bulbs, etc.) and ensure waste collection.