Key benefits of accreditation

To lawyers

The scheme:

• helps individual lawyers plan their career progression;
• helps differentiate them from their peers;
• provides independent evidence of their key skills; and
• demonstrates their commitment to client focus as well as technical skills.
  
  
• Once a lawyer becomes accredited, they also have:
• the right to use the “Signet Accredited” designation and logo on letters, business cards, webpages and tenders etc; and
• access to an ongoing exclusive professional development and support programme to complement their in-office training.

To firms and organisations:

• validation of internal training effectiveness against independently assessed criteria;
• a tool to help motivate and retain key staff;
• ability to benchmark against best practice;
• a credential to support marketing statements about having a client focus, quality of advice etc;
• evidence of commitment to high standards of service delivery; and
• publicity opportunities from having accredited lawyers.

To clients:

• an independent directory of lawyers with specialist skills;
• ability to identify lawyers with an ongoing commitment to client focus as well as technical skills; and
• reassurance that inclusion in the directory is based on objective assessment.