In addition to the thousands of pounds raised over the years by their people through activities such as jeans days, raffles, donations at the annual Christmas carol concert and firm quiz, profits raised from book and CD sales, clothing collections and sponsored events, Browne Jacobson has established the Browne Jacobson Charitable Trust which is funded by the partnership and enables employees to apply for grants for their chosen charities. In the last financial year, ended April 2012, they have distributed £12,000 to worthy causes across the Midlands.

Browne Jacobson recognise that people work hard on their behalf and they aim to provide them with recognition for their efforts. They provide a range of core benefits available to every employee from the day they join the firm. These are income protection, a group pension and life assurance which give their employees peace of mind during their time with the company. In addition to these core benefits they also offer a range of flexible benefits and the employees were consulted on what they wished to be able to flex their salary for before the scheme was launched. The flexible benefits are the pension, private medical care, childcare vouchers, cycle to work, critical illness, dental insurance, travel insurance and the ability to flex their life assurance up or down. If someone reduces the amount of life assurance they enjoy, the firm gives them the money back into their salary. Brown Jacobson also hold annual Wellbeing and Benefits Fairs. This year all of the benefit providers were able to attend to inform and educate as well as to pamper. Free manicures, cycle repairs, commute planning, head massages, healthchecks and hand massages were offered. The feedback was excellent.

Browne Jacobson's aim is to give their people what they want and need! However, their experience is that interventions have the best chance of success if they work with ideas put forward by the departments themselves. After all, they are in the best position to understand what they need. The creation and implementation of the firm's development frameworks is a classic example of this. One of the company's departments approached them with a request to help its solicitors understand what they needed to do at each stage of their career to be successful in that role and prepare themselves to move up to the next level. From that discussion was borne the development framework, a type of competency framework designed to provide a clear and consistent structure for the skills, knowledge and behaviours required by their people, focusing on the four key skills areas the business needs, personal effectiveness, management and leadership effectiveness, business effectiveness and technical effectiveness.