Issue 115: December 2016
Season’s Greetings to all our readers. We wish you a safe and relaxed holiday!
Welcome to the December 2016 issue of AUSTRALIAN PRO BONO NEWS, the Centre’s monthly newsletter providing stories and articles of interest to the Australian pro bono community.
We welcome your feedback, submissions and ideas for both Australian Pro Bono News and our new website – please email info@probonocentre.org.au or refer to our Contact page.
For past issues, visit our Australian Pro Bono News page.
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Issue 115: December 2016
Welcome to the December 2016 issue of AUSTRALIAN PRO BONO NEWS, the Centre’s monthly newsletter providing stories and articles of interest to the Australian pro bono community.
We welcome your feedback, submissions and ideas for both Australian Pro Bono News and our new website – please email info@probonocentre.org.au or refer to our Contact page.
For past issues, visit our Australian Pro Bono News page.
Help us to evaluate Australian Pro Bono News
How useful is the Australian Pro Bono News to you? How can we improve it? Take part in the evaluation by doing our 3-minute quiz:
Come work with us: New full-time secondee opportunity at the Centre
The Australian Government Solicitor and the Centre are excited to announce a new position for a law graduate or junior lawyer with an interest in social justice, working for six months full-time on secondment from the AGS. Applications close 9 January 2017.
Mid-size firms call on government to reverse impending funding cuts
Eighteen mid-size firms have written an open letter to government highlighting the serious risks for pro bono provision if impending funding cuts to Community Legal Centres proceed.
National Access to Justice and Pro Bono Conference to showcase innovation and collaboration
Registrations are now open for the Sixth National Access to Justice and Pro Bono Conference. This Conference will be held in Adelaide on Thursday 23 and Friday 24 March 2017. Discount early bird registration closes on 21 January 2017.
Forum on Victorian legal service panel arrangements discusses current issues
The Hon. Martin Pakula, Attorney General of Victoria, John Corker, CEO of the Australian Pro Bono Centre, and Emma Dunlevie, Pro Bono Manager at Russell Kennedy recently discussed the pro bono conditions in the Victorian legal service panel arrangements at an event hosted in Melbourne by Russell Kennedy Lawyers.
Launch of Law Society of England & Wales’ new Pro Bono Manual
The new Law Society of England & Wales’ Pro Bono Manual: A practical guide and resource kit for solicitors was launched recently during UK National Pro Bono Week. It is based on the Australian Pro Bono Manual.
Pro bono matters can provide opportunity for lawyers to learn about business and human rights
A new workshop report from the Firm Business and Human Rights Peer Learning Process in the UK indicates that it is becoming increasingly difficult from a commercial standpoint for law firms not to build lawyers’ capabilities on business and human rights.
Profile: Alyce Kliese, our new summer intern
In this issue the Centre welcomes our new UNSW School of Law Social Justice summer intern, Alyce Kliese.
By the Book: Highlighting content from the new editions of the Manual and What Works
Each month in 'By the Book', we highlight content from the new editions of the Centre’s flagship publications. In this instalment we highlight Chapter 1.13 – Evaluation from the Australian Pro Bono Manual.
PRO BONO IN THE NEWS: November – December 2016
Links to stories of interest to the pro bono legal community that you may have missed. You can also stay up to date on the latest pro bono news by following the Centre's Twitter feed @AusPBC.