Pro Bono Voco highlights the tremendous work of the Australian pro bono community. It features pro bono projects, profiles leaders within the pro bono community, and provides updates on key developments.
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Issue 15: June 2026
Issue 14: December 2025
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Issue 14 Stories:
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Issue 13: June 2025
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Issue 13 Stories:
- Welcome to Pro Bono Voco: Editorial
- Leanne Collingburn, Deni Jokovic-Wroe and Apoorva Abeysundera: Working with First Nations Startups
- Tom O’Doherty and Rose Hyland: Ethical AI in Action
- Spotlight on Centre Board Member: Stephen Somerville
- Jilly Field: Measuring Pro Bono
- Sabrina Muck and representatives of participant firms: New Zealand’s Pro Bono Framework
- Katie Swain and Cameron Lavery: Social Justice for Women
- Tim Kapustin and Rebekah Farrell: ACT Bar Association – Pro Bono at the Bar
- Dean Moutopoulos, Daniel Ghezelbash, Ariane Dozer, and George Newhouse: How Pro Bono Partnerships Power Hear Me Out
- Spotlight on AGD Secondee: Andrew Cameron
- Jessica Antal, Melissa Koo and Angela Radich: A Growing Pro Bono Practice
- Richard Brittain: Duty Solicitor at the NSW Downing Courts
Issue 12: December 2024
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Issue 12 Stories:
- Welcome to Pro Bono Voco: Editorial
- Shabnum Cassim: Establishing a Pro Bono Practice for Asylum Seekers at Gadens
- Bridget Cama and Corey Smith: Responding to the Uluru Statement’s call for Truth
- Debrah Mercurio and Joshua Schultz: Dentons’ Pro Bono Partnerships in South Australia
- Taylah Spirovski: NSW Young Lawyers’ Early Careers Pro Bono Guide
- Cate Martin, Laura Elliott and Riley Arthur: Unlocking Basic Rights with Birth Certificates
- Ramli Salehkon: Toowoomba Multicultural Legal Service
- Karen Keogh, Fanoula Galanakis and Laura Kilgour: HWL Ebsworth: Helping to Meet Unmet Legal Need
- Board Member Spotlight: Pamela Taylor-Barnett
- Vivian Galanis and Kisanne Dulin: Wallumatta Legal
Issue 11: June 2024
Issue 10: December 2023
Issue 9: June 2023
Issue 8: December 2022
Issue 7: June 2022
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Issue 7 Stories:
- Welcome to Pro Bono Voco: Editorial
- Ying Yi Lim, Chris Povey: Creating Impact – A Balancing Act
- Christina Choi, Ken Hong, Chris Yoo: Korean Community Legal Service: Filling a Critical Gap
- Joshua Strutt: Immigration Advice and Rights Centre (IARC): Afghan Refugee Response
- Jermaine Alberts: Your Mob Learning: At the Grassroots Level
- Zita Adut Deng Ngor: Women’s Legal Service SA: Creating Ripples
- Muhammad Zeeshan Ashraf, Mariam Faruqi, Jalila Haider, Radhika Saxena: Pro Bono in Pakistan: A perspective from on the ground
- Kate Gillingham, Luke Hall, Lynn McMahon: Baker McKenzie’s Pro Bono Practice: Significant Growth
- Malcolm Hoad: Thomson Reuters Case Center: Broadening Access to Justice
- Amy Burton: Everyday Justice: Mills Oakley’s Charitable Law Firm
- Bruce Lasky & Wendy Morrish: Dynamic Justice Duo
- Daniel Sosa: ExpertsDirect Pro Bono: Trends and the Future
- Phoebe Wynn-Pope: Enforced Disappearance in Rwanda: Zihabamwe, AHRI and Corrs
- Tom Dachs & Nicole Mead: DMAW Lawyers: Growing Pro Bono in South Australia
Issue 6: December 2021
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Issue 6 Stories:
- Welcome to Pro Bono Voco: Editorial
- Peter Seidel: Not just ‘feel-good’ law
- Frances Dreyer and Kathryn Bertram: Setting up a pro bono practice – Greenfields to 48 hours per lawyer in two years
- Corina Martin: Private, community and public sectors join forces to deliver free wills in the West Kimberly
- Spotlight on Centre Board: Dr Justine Rogers
- Suzanna Pacht Brickman, Sara Andrews and Andrew P Valentine: Eighteen Plus Months of Remote Legal Services: Best practices and silver linings
- Sam Flynn: How tech can help us bridge the access to justice gap: Josef’s story
- Donnella Mills: Holistic Lawyering at King & Wood Mallesons
- Ivan Posa: IP Australia’s legal team powers ahead with its pro bono work
- Global Climate Action Portal
- Tamara Sims: Pro bono and responsible business at Colin Biggers & Paisley
- Shan Wilson: Focus on New Zealand: Q&A with Shan Wilson, NZ’s first dedicated in-house pro bono partner
- Charlotte Turner and Phoebe Roberts: The Chancery Lane Project: Lawyers enabling solutions to the climate crisis
Issue 5: June 2021
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Issue 5 Stories:
- Welcome to Pro Bono Voco: Editorial
- Vincent Floro: The ABC in-house legal team launches its pro bono program
- Alice Rolls: Accessible Justice Project – Delivering Justice Through Innovation
- Hannah Robinson: ‘Going Bush’ – Legal assistance and pro bono support in regional, rural and remote areas
- Katie Green: The New South Wales Bar Association’s Legal Assistance Scheme
- KWM’s People & Purpose Podcast – “What does 2021 have in store for the pro bono sector?”
- Law Access: Maximising the Legal Profession’s Pro Bono Contribution in WA
- 7th National Law Firm Pro Bono Survey: What did we learn?
- Spotlight on Centre Board: Professor Robert Cunningham
- Alana Schetzer: Youthlaw’s Legal Pod program helping young care leavers with pro bono support in VIC
- Prisma Legal: Pioneering Certified B Corporation doing Pro Bono
Issue 4: December 2020
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Issue 4 Stories:
- Welcome to Pro Bono Voco: Editorial
- Natalie Wade: Disability rights advocacy and pro bono innovation
- National Justice Project: Tackling discrimination through strategic litigation
- Pro Bono Guide to the Climate Crisis: The Centre’s new resource tackling the impacts of climate change
- Dentons: Large scale wetlands conservation in the Murray-Darling Basin
- Rosalind Croucher: Pro bono assistance at the Australian Human Rights Commission
- FAL Lawyers: Pro bono at a boutique firm and the ‘Free the Flag’ campaign
- Measuring impact and the Centre’s new Buddy Program
- Kingsford Legal Centre: Legal services pro bono support in the time of COVID
- Spotlight on Australian Pro Bono Centre’s Board: Jonathon Hunyor
- Chloe O’Brien: COVID and ‘the new normal’
- DLA Piper: Learning in the time of COVID-19
- Growing pro bono participation by in-house corporate and government teams
Issue 3: June 2020
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Issue 3 Stories:
- Welcome to Pro Bono Voco: Editorial
- Jilly Field & Tim Leach: Bushfires and COVID-19
- Ella Alexander: Developing pro bono practices in mid-sized firms
- In conversation with Jennifer Robinson
- Lander & Rogers: Pro bono work in family law
- Anton Hermann Monash Scholarship
- David Hillard & Jessica Morath: Evolution of pro bono at Clayton Utz & nationally
- Spotlight on our Board: Pauline Wright
- Trent Wallace: First Nations led pro bono
- Diplomacy Training Program: Promoting human rights during COVID-19
- Looking Back, Moving Forward: Centre’s Indigenous Strategy
Issue 2: December 2019
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Issue 2 Stories:
- Welcome to Pro Bono Voco: Editorial
- Talking human rights with Madeleine Bridgett
- RLC’s Financial Abuse Service: An innovative approach to pro bono service delivery
- The Future of Pro Bono: Global perspective on legal need and sector trends with Nicolas Patrick
- Hannah Rose, Sparke Helmore Lawyers: Pursuing Social Purpose
- YLA’s Cyber Volunteer Project: Innovating access to justice for children
- Brimbank Melton CLC: Supporting local communities
- Reflections of Davyd Wong, Hong Kong Centre for Pro Bono Service
- Q&A with Centre staff: Jessica Hatherall, Sally Embelton and Natasha Rose
- ExpertsDirect: providing pro bono expert witness services
Issue 1: July 2019
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Issue 1 Stories:
- Welcome to Pro Bono Voco: Editorial
- Emma Maple-Brown of Herbert Smith Freehills: Indigenous Law Centre Secondment
- Honouring Anton Hermann: MinterEllison
- Meet the new Centre CEO: Gabriela Christian-Hare
- AMP teams up with Cancer Council’s Pro Bono Program
- Grata Fund: A Young Vibrant Organisation with a Bold Plan
- Pro Bono Successes & Challenges: Guy Donovan, Holding Redlich
- Cherie Blair CBE, QC & Gabrielle Holly: The law catches up: Vedanta and parent company liability in the UK
- Q&A with former Centre CEO: John Corker
- Kate Fazio: Justice Connect’s Gateway Project
- Spotlight on the Centre’s Board: Phillip Cornwell
- Ashurst tackles Financial Exclusion
- Trent Wallace: AGS Pro Bono Secondment
- DLA Piper: supporting pro bono dreams
