Perseus was the first of the heroes of Greek mythology whose exploits in defeating various horrific monsters, such as Medusa, provided the founding myths of the Twelve Olympians.
Mission and Values
Their mission is to help their clients achieve breakthrough results addressing their toughest challenges, to have a positive impact on the world, and to build a great firm that attracts and develops extraordinary people.
They are a values-driven organization. This means they will adhere to the following values:
- > Impact: They value performance and results. They set and hold theirselves accountable for high standards.
- > Respect: They listen to and learn from their clients, their environment, and one another. They incorporate diverse perspectives into their work.
- > Candor: Their work is grounded in learning the facts, assessing the ways to maximize impact, and speaking the truth to their clients as they advise them, even if it is sometimes difficult to deliver.
- > Passion: While clients value results, their work is about much more than that. They only represent clients for whom they are committed to being a passionate advocate for their cause.
Approach
They pursue their mission through three sets of activities:
- - Serving their clients as vigorous advocates on their behalf;
- - Speaking, writing about, and promoting international human rights; and
- - Providing pro bono (unpaid) support to those with compelling causes who cannot afford to pay for their services.
SERVICES
Legal Services
At its core Perseus Strategies is a law firm, providing legal advisory services to companies, non-profit organizations, individuals, and governments. It is capable, working with its strategic partners, of providing any required services.
International Human Rights
Perseus Strategies has substantive experience analyzing and applying international human rights law to country situations and individual cases as well as presenting information to appropriate international and regional human-rights courts and related mechanisms.
Government Affairs
Perseus Strategies has substantial experience in developing and deploying carefully sequenced legal, political, and public relations strategies designed to impact critical public policy goals.
Corporate Social Responsibility
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) refers to operating a business in a manner that accounts for the social and environmental impact created by the business. CSR means a commitment to developing policies that integrate responsible practices into daily business operations, and to reporting on progress made toward implementing these practices.
Non-Profit Strategy Consulting
Perseus Strategies has extensive experience advising organizations on this most important of work, and has special expertise assisting human rights, development, and humanitarian organizations.
